Famous quotes containing the words working, poverty and/or rates:
“If Botticelli were alive today hed be working for Vogue.”
—Peter Ustinov (b. 1921)
“The hour when you say, What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)