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The street outside my window is one of a million likeminded Los Angeles streets. Taggers, homeless, families and lovers, thieves and beggars, running children and old women, churches, bars, corner stores, Spanish, Cambodian and Armenian words and accents. I want to hug my street and all within, to feel the throbbing pulse beating its steady rhythm.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
7 months ago

We couldn't buy anything in the shops, and we couldn't get money because the banks were closed, so we had to stand there like beggars.

Larisa Kharkivska

Found on CNN
1 year ago

BSE and NSE-listed companies are in no mood to take up its share price and its reason is simple that retail investors are not emptying their stock. If retail investors keep buying then stock market will keep going down and ultimately all these small investors will become beggars and all companies wealthier

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

You don’t want that to happen, but I think beggars can’t be choosers right now, we’ll take any win that we can get.

Mookie Betts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Julius Caesar

added by ValidVibes
2 years ago

It has been three months now that I havent gotten any salary from office, and I am hardly surviving, and it is getting more difficult to come over home expenses. My brothers business is also going below zero because of the lockdown, poverty has become worse as you see more beggars in the streets. Daily laborers are suffering because of no daily projects, which have made them turn to beggars as well.

Zaki Nadry

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.

Friedrich Neitzsche

added by Normando
4 years ago

Were not beggars, what the U.S. empire is doing with its puppets is an internal provocation. They wanted to generate a great national commotion, but they didnt achieve it.

Nicolás Maduro

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We are not beggars.

President Nicolas Maduro

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The circumstances of this case are absolutely shocking, representing another horrific example of the Iranian authorities’ warped priorities, no one, regardless of age, should be subjected to flogging; that a child was prosecuted for consuming alcohol and sentenced to 80 lashes beggars belief.

Philip Luther

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The idea that more than 700 people could all stand trial together in one day, all facing the death penalty in what is clearly a grossly unfair trial that violates Egypt's own constitution beggars belief.

Amnesty International

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You just could n’t make it up, it beggars belief that it would ever have been considered, let alone approved, and serious questions must be asked about the force’s approach to child sexual exploitation operations.

Jon Brown

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It beggars belief that this shop created a Nazi-branded drink by unwitting coincidence, it was unavoidable that this would be immensely offensive to Jewish people and anyone who lost members of their family to Nazi brutality.

Stephen Silverman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You can see all the pitfalls in this, it beggars the imagination how it's going to happen.

Joshua Landis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

2.“Life is like a traffic jam. You’ve got to be patient and wait on till an opportunity comes for you to drive ahead”. 3.“Life is like an onion, the deeper you peel into it the more tears it brings to your eyes”. 4.“Never wait for the best time to do good because good can be done best any time”. 5.“Think creatively, plan minutely and act resolutely and success is sure to come your way”. 6.“All intelligent persons are not successful but all successful people are intelligent”. 7.“Winners are those who act on their dreams but losers are those who dream of their acts”. 8.“Learning to accept defeat is the first step towards victory”. 9.“People who complain about their life are like beggars sitting on a heap of gold”. 10.“Theology is the study of God but not all theologians discover God”. 11. “One who discerns God’s will is treading on the path of salvation”. 12.“Environmental pollution is the most deadly sin because it springs from lack of concern and absence of love for the other”. 13.“Do not be afraid of enemies who criticize you but beware of friends who secretly despise you”. 14.“The difference between a pessimist and an optimist is that the former sees the dusk while the latter sees the dawn”. 15.“Religious fanaticism is the religion of the most irreligious and Godless people”. 16.“He who says only my religion is good, is putting a fence around God’s goodness and is guilty of God manipulation”. 17.“Too much religiosity is bad for the soul as too much food is bad for the body. Religious excessiveness is the breeding ground of fanaticism”. 18.“A religion that does not teach love of neighbour is either a bad religion or no religion at all”. 19.“A community is not an addition of number but a multiplication of love”. 20.“The three most important components of an ideal community are: the head to think and plan, the heart to forgive and love and the hands to serve and care”. 21.“Peace is a rare commodity which can be bought only through love”. 22.“Personal freedom is not a privilege to be misused but a responsibility to be carried out”. 23.“True love starts with perception and ends in compassion”. 24.“A good ship is tested in stormy weather so too true friendship is tested in difficult times”. 25.“Every tree cut down is oxygen lost and life endangered”. 26.“Wars are the darkest spots in human history and the height of human folly”. 27.“There is no greater fool than the one who does not know himself”. 28.“There is no greater folly than the failure to grab opportunities in life”. 29.“An education that does not form the heart leads to deviation of character”. 30.“Education that does not open the mind and heart of a person is a self defeating endeavour”. 31.“Education begins in the womb and ends in the tomb”.

Dr. Barnes Mawrie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

I wish Tsipras had done what he promised (to overturn austerity) but they didn't let him, now we have turned into beggars for a plate of food.

Irini Kasidokosta

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is a shame for Tanzania to still be poor after 54 years of independence, we must stop being a nation of beggars.

Edward Lowassa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Do whatsoever with absolute conviction as there have been beggars who've lived like kings, and there have been kings who've lived like beggars so believe in your self and MickeyMize your life.

Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

We will never go as beggars on our knees to (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel, we will go standing tall as Greeks do. The Greek people are fighting united to restore national sovereignty and dignity.

Panos Kammenos

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

Georges Bernanos

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

W. H. Auden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

Martin Luther King

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

Homer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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