The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
#quotes #jeffrey-sachs #money #economy

The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
#proverbs #zen-proverbs #buddhism #god #paths

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #speech

An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
#proverbs #estonian-proverbs #food #wisdom

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #attitude

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
#proverbs #american-proverbs #marriage

To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #people #food #king

I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ~Samantha Stosur
#quotes #samantha-stosur #workout #bikes

Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
#proverbs #persian-proverbs

The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
#proverbs #american-proverbs

The unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution. ~Verlyn Klinkenborg
#quotes #verlyn-klinkenborg

Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
#quotes #warren-farrell #relationship #alcohol

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
#quotes #william-griffith-wilson #alcohol

The belly rules the mind. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #food #mind

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. ~Russian Proverb
#proverbs #russian-proverbs #wealth #poverty

Eat and drink, and let the world go to ruin. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #food #wisdom

I admit that, my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ~Sam Levenson
#quotes #sam-levenson #wife

A white Christmas fills the churchyard. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs

Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
#proverbs #jewish-proverbs #food

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
#quotes #norbert-of-xanten

And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
#quotes #michael-grant

People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#quotes #vilayanur-s-ramachandran #art #science #creativity #thinking

Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#quotes #toyotomi-hideyoshi #leadership

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
#quotes #hippocrates #medicine