"The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things."

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Source : "Widening Income Disparities" by Helene D. Gayle, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

Betty Smith

#Hands Quotes #Differences Quotes #Rich Quotes

“It is never too late to be wise.”

Source : Daniel Defoe, Thomas Roscoe (1831). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe”, p.188
“Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good.”
“Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.”

Source : "There Be Dragons Review, and Interview With Wes Bentley". Interview with Richard Karpala, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.
“You don't need as much as some of the other artists but you do sing with your eyes close and it gives the illusion that you singing in your sleep and number one places around the country, you have to have your eyes open. You can close your eyes for a certain gesture or whatever but your eyes are the mirrors of your soul.”
“If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong.”
“God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.”

Source : Elisabeth Elliot (1988). “Loneliness: it can be a wilderness, it can be a pathway to God”, Oliver-Nelson Books
“I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.”
“The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.”

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