Rich Quotes by John Steinbeck, David Eddings, Lily Allen, Stevie Nicks, John Bonham, Dolly Parton and many others.
If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that nothin’ he can do ‘ll make him feel rich.
The one of us who lies the best will get the better of the bargain. It’s a game. A very exciting game that’s played all over the world. Good players got rich, and bad players don’t.
I like them old and rich.
When you’re rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I’ve talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.
If we’d have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we’re upset about it, they’ll say money is all we care about.
I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things.
Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors.
Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.
In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, ‘What does your dad do?’ ‘What does your mom do?
Of course you want to be rich and famous. It’s natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?
As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every ‘educated’ African who wants to be rich – and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich – heads straight into government or politics.
there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to “do well” in the world instead of living well.
I’ve always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.
A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.
It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.
The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.
If you’ve ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I’ve often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn’t bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
I am the mayor of Boston, I am a Democrat. But, I am not the mayor of Democratic people in Boston. I am the mayor of Democrats and Republicans, Independents, Tea Party, and the unenrolled. I am the mayor of conservatives and progressives. I am the mayor of all the different races. I am the mayor of the rich and the poor.
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, ‘What relationship has it with what’s going on?’ I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.
I am Indian, and I’m proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
There are too few rich and too few profits.
Get rich if you’re looking for a woman, Get pious if you’re looking for a wife
And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.
I had never been to Texas. I’d been through Texas, but I’m so glad to be back in a place that’s not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, it’s rich and saturated in American-ness.
Globalization is a form of totalitarianism… It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that’s really what gives life’s true meaning.
It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
I’ve traveled all over the world and America is the easiest place to get rich.
I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.
To put it quite crudely … the poor don’t really know how the rich live, and the rich don’t know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.
Contrary to popular belief. It’s much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.
When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.
It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.
In order to live a rich life, everything about who you are must
be one, in alignment, and in pure harmony.
be one, in alignment, and in pure harmony.
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.
A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya – were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in ZГјrich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
You dont do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
Rich countries don’t need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.
What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.
Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time – condemned to painting for life.
If I’m going to have something rich and yummy, I’m not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I’m going to make a pie from scratch.
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.
Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana is a reflection of how rich India’s poor are at heart. Without any obligation to put any money in the 0 balance accounts, they didn’t open an empty account.
I didn’t paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy’s living room.
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants – more than anything else – to become rich. As long as they don’t have the money, it’ll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they’ll understand how important other things are – and have always been.
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.
It would be impossible in a few words to describe all that we’ve found with Cassini. No mission has ever gone as deep for as long on a planetary system as rich as Saturn’s.
The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.
In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.
I’m already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I’m not gonna lie to you; I didn’t really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you’re crazy.
He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.
Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the universal consumption of internationally marketed packages, a road which can ultimately lead only to universal pollution and universal frustration.
A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.
Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing
Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God’s Kingdom.
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once again, are part of the context of life in the Arab world – anarchy, confusion, and corruption.
Gout, a physician’s name for the rheumatism of a rich patient
There are so many people living the best life money can buy. I want to slap some of these people. Some of these people you think are living the best life but they’re not rich on the inside. I started this philosophy to be spiritual and be rich on the inside out.
One of the things that’s beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It’s really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it’s not a weakness.
I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage managers on that show became major TV creators and directors – John Rich, Jack Smight, Arthur Penn and Bud Yorkin.
Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game.
I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a VIP.
It is a good thing to learn the truth one’s self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.
The feeling of rich makes you rich. The feeling of poor makes you poor.
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.
Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they’re ‘happier without’.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world’s caprice, you will never be rich.
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.
The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: “What’s mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it.”
You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?
The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.
The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?
I am the rich man’s guru.
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.
Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.
Whether you’re rich or poor, life’s still cold-blooded.
The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five’s each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
Time is the best kept secret of the rich.
I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn’t want to rely on them. Now it’s moving pretty fast. I’m not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.
I don’t like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They’re obviously searching for something they don’t have, such as happiness or the respect of others.
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
Kombu isn’t the only food rich in glutamic acid, though it may be the richest.
All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.
I heard Russell Simmons say that, ‘people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.’ Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don’t nobody wanna work for it.
Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.
Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, ‘greed’ has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.
Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.
Budget cuts if you’re not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don’t have any and more to those who do. That’s how President Fredo says we’re going to get out of the giant deficit hole he’s dug. You can’t put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.
If it’s wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it’s wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.
We see but the outside of a rich man’s happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.
“Get Rich or Die Tryin”. That’s the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they’re determined.
The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don’t want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America. They don’t want to talk about race. The discussion for them is based on class struggle, rich against poor, but doesn’t offer the possibility of a dialogue about racial questions.
As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.
How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don’t notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam’s eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it.
Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.
You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check… is wealthy. “Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!”
In the South China Sea and underneath the South China Sea, of course, there’s a lot of raw materials. There are very rich fishing grounds there, so there are some economic concerns in the South China Sea as well.
How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I’ve always thought.
I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.
When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.
Since I am known as a ‘rich’ person, I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year.
A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.
Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.
Oh no! Don’t drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max
Riches do not make one rich but busy.
Do you want to be rich or not? Let’s get focused on that, buddy
You can be rich or poor but you should have the guts to go with dreams and work hard to make them come true.
You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I’ve made lots of money making fun of me.
Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our hands to the poor and share the joy of generous Christian giving.
[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!… Midway from nothing to the Deity!
The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.
The very rich only admire themselves
I want to get rich and die old.
Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
I was 12 years fittin to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. Ive been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so thats just the life. Weve been playing with money since young.
It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
I feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country.
Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
Your life doesn’t change one way for the better when the Democrats start punishing the rich. In fact, every time you hear the Democrats start talking about standing up for the little guy, look out because it’s the little guy that gets creamed.
It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.
You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
Terence: As my old da used to tell me, ‘never trust a rich man’. David: Good thing I’m only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
I don’t want to be an object of consumption. I like to get out there and participate because I care about it. It’s not because I’ve gotten filthy rich off the hides of young skaters that I feel some sickening obligation to act on, and make myself look like I’m not that bad of a guy. It’s because I actually care.
The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn’t anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? — Anita Blake
In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.
Nothing will enrich your life as much as the appreciation of art. If you want to ‘Live Rich’, you have to – absolutely have to – include art in your life.
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.
If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.
Rich could play way better than Krupa.
You’re rich if you’ve had a meal today.
There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity
Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop.
I’m rich, freakin’ rich. It’s crazy.
Rich relationships lead to much more than money. They lead to success, fulfillment, and wealth.
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.
With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation’s sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.
The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the “rich young ruler,” being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power.
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn’t want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
We’re not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.
The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.
The Democrats have so corrupted our understanding of economics and productivity that lowering tax rates is now considered to be some kind of sop to the rich. I mean, it’s just profound to me, the damage inflicted on this country by the Democrats in their pursuit of perpetual power.
The rich aren’t like us, they pay less taxes.
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
Many rich and powerful men would pay dearly to see the Lord or His Most Pure Mother, but God does not appear in riches, but in the humble heart… Every one of the poorest men can be humbles and come to know God. It need neither money nor reputation to come to know God, but only humility.
You can’t stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you’re smarter than he is and he’s doing these things and he’s getting rich.
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.
And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn’t have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.
I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants – more than anything else – to become rich. As long as they don’t have the money, it’ll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they’ll understand how important other things are – and have always been.
Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death.В Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren’t necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn’t mean you’re willing to kill.
You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
Rich dad said it this way, ‘Big people have big dreams and small people have small dreams. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dreams.’
When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him… a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn’t use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.
If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it’s a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.
Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.
I don’t need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.
This Osama bin Laden guy, spoiled rich kid worth $300M. I have three words for this guy: Anna Nicole Smith. We send her over there, she’ll get his money, he’ll be dead in a week.
The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan.
For the rich, it’s not about getting more stuff. It’s about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can’t completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.
I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I’m more in the second group.
Tell me a musician who’s got rich off digital sales. Apple’s doing pretty good though, right?
The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.
There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
My motives at a young age were, “I want to be rich and famous”.
All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.
Now, for some of you it doesn’t matter. You were born rich and you’re going to stay rich. But here’s my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.
Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field – no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.
When the success of ‘Crazy Rich’ hit, it’s like everybody knows exactly who you are, and the way that they speak to you is different. I’ve stayed the same throughout. It’s just people’s perception of you changes.
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
I was born rich. Not in tangible things… but rich in the parents I had.
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.
It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I’m rich.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation – the undesirable face of globalization? Do we want to lose the variety of languages and all the rich culture that comes with them?
Rich by nature, poor by policy’ might be written over Canada’s door.
A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
Divorce is the cheapest thing in Pakistan. About 30 cents. Cheaper than fish and chips. I’ve had clients married to very rich men for 40 years, then turned out on the road with nothing.
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.
Companies don’t get rich hurting their customers.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
When Obama talks about raising taxes on the rich, he’s looking at me.
The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these “giddy-paced” times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.
When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:-
‘Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you,
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.’
To puff and look important and to say:-
‘Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you,
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.’
This is the ultimate cruelty, isn’t it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it’s only air–too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.
Lifestyles of the rich and famous. Well I’m rich and famous but if you got money, they know what you’re name is. If you don’t, you’re nameless.
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people…. We are a nation rich in rivers.
In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.
I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.
Somebody should tell Jerry Falwell that God is an Independent . . . he’s not rich enough to be a Republican.
By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.
Lemberger’s stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.
The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.
Russia’s leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
At a physical level, India is blessed with a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna. We have a predictable monsoon, and a vast network of rivers and water bodies. We have one of the longest coastlines. We have enormous access to solar energy.
If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.
I don’t believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people – the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people – they’re all here.
Whatever results you’re getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren’t going well in your outer life, it’s because things aren’t going well in your inner life. It’s that simple.
I think I’ve been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy – they don’t see me at all.
The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.
Integrity safeguards love, and love makes family life rich and zestful-now and forever.
We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that’s good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!
If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.
The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really – desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.
That song [“Money to Burn”] is me being a fly on the wall in situations in LA. I mean, I’ve seen the way a lot of people operate and I’ve seen that sort of thing go down. There’s a lot of rich kids with a little bit of extra money.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.
As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.
If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don’t mean to.
I didn’t have life that good coming up. I wasn’t born with a lot of money. We weren’t dirt poor, but we weren’t rich. All I knew was struggle.
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.
All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O’Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
The greatest trick the rich – and their cheerleaders on the right – ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn’t exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.
The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that’s when you become the enemy.
I don’t care how rich and successful a man is. He’s nothing without an education.
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All i would like to say is that I’m rich and you’re not.
A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.
He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Getting rich, or becoming outstanding at anything is all a matter of attitude. You must make up your mind once and for all – you commit yourself – and then just stay with it until you finally have what you set out to get.
A very dear friend of mine great actress named Wendy Rich Stetson was very active in the theater department at Amherst and I went to all the plays she was in, and it became very clear to me that what she was doing was something I wanted to be doing.
Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You’re rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.
Smart, bold, and practical. I Will Teach You To Be Rich is packed with tips that actually work.
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.
… living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.
Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.
I’m from a middle class family. I didn’t grow-up rich, but I didn’t grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.
Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.
We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don’t participate in this.
We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.
Clinton’s pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.
Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said ‘Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m rich.’
The truth is that money doesn’t make you rich; knowledge does.
People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or that it matters at all, but, at the very least, with that attitude they miss out on some extraordinary stories.
Wisdom ruleth in counsel — so do riches.
We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they’ve ever been at any time in our history, we’ve also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we’ve ever had, and we’ve potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.
Come, then,” returned the nephew gaily. “What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You’re rich enough.
I’m not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.
Jim Rich is many different things but he has a great combination of a kind of old school tabloid reporter and editor’s sense for what’s a great story, but he’s also incredibly passionate about social justice. I think Shaun King called him the most woke editor in American, if that’s a compliment.
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
A lot of women feel it’s a man’s world. Some people think all you need to do is marry a rich guy, and you don’t need to do anything with your life. I would hate that. I don’t care whether he has money or he doesn’t, because I don’t need it, and that’s a good feeling that I don’t have to worry about that.
The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.
Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he’s too rich to kill.
Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.
In fact, I have a problem with too much money… I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.
Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.
The rich don’t have children; they have heirs.
Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.
The tree of love its roots hath spread Deep in my heart, and rears its head; Rich are its fruits: they joy dispense; Transport the heart, and ravish sense. In love’s sweet swoon to thee I cleave, Bless’d source of love.
Create a really interesting, complex person that you want to know more about, and take her on a journey that is rich and fulfilling and that has an end that is perfectly fulfilling, and that has an end that is perfect for that character, and the audience will love it.
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I’ve heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he’s rich, and he’s famous. I don’t see anything strange about that.
Oh England is a pleasant place for them that’s rich and high,
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least–the privilege of making others happy.
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
Rich people…take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set “It will work because I’ll make it work.”
In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?
I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman’it was a relationship.
He is rich who wishes no more than he has.
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
Our country regularly uses military force, but only a fraction of Americans serve in the military. This means fewer and fewer people have a direct link to the military, and yet it remains as important as ever that we have a rich understanding of what we are doing as a country.
How to get rich … whenever I meet people, that’s usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.
Herman Cain answered the Wall Street protesters, and he had a message for these protesters. He said, ‘If you don’t have a job, if you’re not rich, don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the banks, blame yourself.’ And a nation of out of work teabaggers said, ‘Yeah! Hey, wait a minute.’
As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace
O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. – Romeo –
I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.
I hope that people who don’t live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.
The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude’s of life.
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners — and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America’s lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
I see people with Asperger’s syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty–to the poor and humble.
It’s okay to be eccentric if you’re rich; otherwise you’re just crazy.
People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn’t feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein – all the wrong foods for people.
The rich are different from us.
If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.
Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let alone with an entire family. I do not want to make movies for the rich.
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.
Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can’t do it by legal means then they’ll do it by illegal ones.
I’m genuinely, near and dear, truly rich.
Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.
To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
The record company’s worst fear is that you’ll fall in love or get rich.
The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done; neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely; her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Many people don’t have the ability to be rich, because they’re too lazy or they don’t have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It’s a talent. Some people have a talent for piano. Some people have a talent for raising a family. Some people have a talent for golf. I just happen to have a talent for making money.
If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get on the bus and go faster and get rich… I just didn’t like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.
When I was in the West Coast watching the Giants, Rich Aurilia was a guy I always liked.
I think the UN’s role – especially since it’s not an extremely rich fund, and that’s to put it mildly – is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future.
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They
always did…they always will. They will have the same effect here as
elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper
spheres.
always did…they always will. They will have the same effect here as
elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper
spheres.
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.
Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.
God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.
My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
Rich people don’t pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes – they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn’t pay taxes.
I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don’t write, and make more money.
History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.
I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.
Money doesn’t make the man. Some people have money, and some people are rich.
Poetry is priceless…. a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you’re quite poor.
We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It’s a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who’s rich and you ask, ‘How can I become like you, except faster?’
I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they’re more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.
I’m a little lavish I must admit. But I’m not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
Rich people are poor people with money.
Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land…If he have nothing but his hands, he may…by industrie quickly grow rich.
A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.
Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart.
I have a rich, full, textured life.
I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.
Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even as they surprise and delight readers with a rich account of progress already achieved. I salute their unique combination of technical savvy, practical sense, and imperishable enthusiasm.
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer – but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
It’s not that we can predict bubbles – if we could, we would be rich. But we can certainly have a bubble warning system.
A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which – if she wasn’t smart enough to camouflage herself – she generally paid the price.
Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.
I’m busier than ever and it’s led to new opportunities. But I’ve never worried about being rich or famous – for me, it’s all about the dancing.
The trained mind is a rich mind.
I’m a little lavish I must admit. But I’m not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.
That’s an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That’s certain to be reversed, that’s going to disappear. The Republicans are going to slash the rich’s taxes.
The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he’s set for life. I didn’t think I was set for life, and I don’t now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
She’s so thin she’s either dying or rich.
Rich people are so eccentric, and I don’t think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.
I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, ‘I’m never having kids and I’m going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.’
In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries – and poor people – are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.
Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.
Terror is the poor man’s war, war is the rich man’s terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can’t afford an air force.
The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.
Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not
I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure.
Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.
I am really rich. All of my life I have heard a truly successful, and even a modestly successful person, cannot run for public office – just can’t happen. Yet that’s the kind of mindset you need to make this country great again.
Rich Gang is a rich look.
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.
University: … a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.
Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.
My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
My soul is that of a drummer…. I didn’t do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
We’ve all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.
The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.
The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there’s so much – and I don’t mean monetarily and I don’t mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!
The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle
class. The decision is up to you.
class. The decision is up to you.
The luckiest person in the world is somebody who is born into a small, shabby-genteel town on a major railway connection with 24,000 souls and a bird sanctuary and whose grandfather owns a farm and whose father owns a business -whose family is mildly prosperous but not rich, which means you can leave the town.
If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns… To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns appropriate to their own lives through which they can see variety, regularity, and interconnections.
Haiti is a proud nation, rich in heritage and spirituality. How they have been able to not only survive but thrive is a testament to how the Haitian people have come together to rebuild, create new families, and care for one another.
Many an optimist has become rich simply by buying out a pessimist.
I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.
I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
…and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor’s brow to blood! – /For these their sins the nations cast them out.
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.
Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It’s like an Idiot’s Guide to the Afterlife.
The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy – even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.
Wealth is just consistency… I don’t want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.
Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses – young loving.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.
Syria is no longer Syria. Syria is Russia and it’s Iran, who Hillary Clinton made strong and Kerry and Obama made into a very powerful nation and a very rich nation, very, very quickly, very, very quickly.
I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi – they tend to be rich with musical ideas.
You must develop a rich inner life to enjoy life altogether.
Most rich people are the poorest people I know.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.
[The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor – a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
Were it good
To set the exact wealth of all our states
All at one cast? to set so rich a main
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
It were not good.
To set the exact wealth of all our states
All at one cast? to set so rich a main
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
It were not good.
Look, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking I said no because the whole thing would just be too Dirty Dancing , right? Summer fling at the resort, only with the roles reversed: you know, the poor working girl and the rich doctor’s son, nobody puts Baby in the corner, blah blah blah. That kind of thing.
Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.
Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.
Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.
I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.
Were still gonna do those things not because weve got nothing to lose.. were still gonna do them because.. WERE RICH BIATCH!!
There’s only one good reason to be a writer-we can’t help it! We’d all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we’re off on a wrong foot…I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.
I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.
It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.
To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich
He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.
How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don’t want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.
You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living–of every statesman–every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Whatever is not nailed down is mine.” This is the motto of the exploiter. “Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down.” This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.
An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.
Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.
Ann Romney… looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles – eh! It’s hard for me to believe. I mean, she’s a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.
I’m from where…Rich and A hit the kitchen they were pitchin up
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
It is incredible how rich you can get by not being perfect
… frugality makes a poor man rich.
… it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
If you don’t first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you’ll only be a highpay slave.
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
Baseball’s rich in wonderful statistics, but it’s hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial’s hitting record. He didn’t care where he was, he just hit.
I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
Bush is a natural-born loser with a filthy-rich daddy who pimped his son out to rich oil-mongers. He hates music, football and sex, in no particular order, and he is no fun at all.
Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.
The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn’t perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I’ve had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.
The education here intended in not merely that of the children of the rich and noble, but of every rank and class of people, down to the lowest and the poorest. It is not too much to say that schools for the education of all should be placed at convenient distances, and maintained at the public expense.
We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.
We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
Most of the money given by rich people in “charity” is made up of conscience money, “ransom,” political bribery, and bids for titles…. One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn’t matter if you’re well known or rich or whatever it is.
People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls; poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are always coming up to me and telling me that Archie is just like their dad.
I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
If you are young child and you’ve lost mother and dad to AIDS and rich nations sit on the sidelines not caring, you will become a frustrated person and a hopeless person.
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.
Carlos Tevez is so rich that when he retires he’ll never have to play football again
I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.
I’m still a communist in the sense that I don’t believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer – I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.
I don”t wanna be rich, just live good.
If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I’d be a rich man right now.
Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.
The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.
The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I’ve studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
If someone says: “I don’t want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture,” he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that’s likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.
No, I’m not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn’t persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.
A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.
I don’t know what the explosion did, but it damaged something deep and irreparable. Never mind. If I get home, I’ll be so stinking rich, I’ll be able to pay someone to do my hearing.
The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it’s a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.
My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income…passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.
To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
My dad was an architect, and he wasn’t a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.
We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
It is okay to cut your wife’s throat as long as you are rich, famous—and black.
Never stop hoping for all of the righteous desires of your heart. But don’t close your eyes and hearts to the simple and elegant beauties of each day’s ordinary moments that make up a rich, well-lived life
I don’t think you’re happier if you’re thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.
He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you’ve shown me. (Acheron)
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.
Being is good, but getting rich is better…. If the gods had only the riches of men’s adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one’s sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.
Getting rich begins with the right mindset, the right words and the right plan.
No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal – the search for truth.
A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life – provided he go his own way…. To live one’s own life is still the best way of life, always was and always will be.
A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn’t care if you’re not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
I had never been to Texas. Id been through Texas, but Im so glad to be back in a place thats not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, its rich and saturated in American-ness.
There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.
Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.
The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness.
I’d definitely rather be rich than famous.
Everyone chooses one of two roads in life – the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.
Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.
In the meantime the big corporations are fleeing America for tax havens and places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Grand Cayman Islands; the rich are finding more tax loopholes to expect; so when are the people going to basically roll up their sleeves and say, we’ve had enough, we’re going to recapture Congress.
I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.
If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don’t do it.
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
My family is delighted every time I cook maitake. Our taste buds awaken in anticipation of its rich, deep and nuanced flavors.
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
I don’t give any gifts to the rich.
There is a movement in club football, which I don’t necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.
We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Think rich, look poor.
I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.’ No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own – nobody.
We’re teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he’s like, ‘Umm, I’m taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate’s, like, half Afghani, so it’s going to cause some static.’
If a man is wise, he gets rich an’ if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That’s what keeps the money movin’ around.
I would have rather had a dad with change jingling in his pocket; one who would have spent the last forty minutes of the world raking leaves for his kids to jump in, so that they perished in one loud, bright instant, giggles still bubbling up from their bellies, never suspecting a thing. Yeah, well. Tough luck, rich boy.
Sometimes those who bloom too early fade fast. Michael Kors struggled for years – and endured bankruptcy – before he became all rich and famous and fabulous.
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they’re doing, don’t just sit there. Vote them out.
Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don’t have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
Rich Folkers is throwing ’em up in the bullpen.
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
And the art was in every corner and wall… a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember.
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.
Young kids out here see what’s on TV and feel like they can start rapping. They think rappers are rich and really have their own jets and Bentleys, but in lot of cases that stuff is rented.
Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in big—big money, big businesses selling weed—after 40 years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed. Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing?
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs …and then cackles.
Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they’ve created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.
‘Above The Thunder’ is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find this remarkable debut novel not only irresistible but impossible to put down.
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don’t develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn’t have too much money, then it was more likely.
It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it’s because of the wrong policies of the government.
Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
You can never be too rich or too thin.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Morals are a luxury of the rich.
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.
When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don’t have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy.
Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.
There are even some radical leftists who look at it as that but then go further and say, “Because we have been so exclusionary and because it’s been so unfair that America has been so rich, it’s so unfair that America has been this one place in the world, it’s not because of us, and we deserve to pay a price.”
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: – it seems rather to enlarge it.
If you want to be rich, think of the savings and get them.
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.
And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.
The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.
Even the rich aren’t often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn’t make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.
The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.
I didn’t want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it’s an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
Environmentalism, I’d always been told, was just rich white people.
No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.
The United States and rich countries cannot change Africa from within. It has to impose reform on Africa; it has to come from within.
Republicans are no longer allowed to say that people are rich. You have to refer to them as “job creator.” You can’t even use the word rich. You have to say, “This chocolate cake is so moist and job creator.”
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
You know what they say – sleep is the mother’s drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.
I think in any organisation it’s right to set out what you stand for, what you’re fighting for and bring that together in one document so that people can see that the modern compassionate Conservative Party is in it for everybody – not just the rich
When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.
I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.
Like water spilt upon the ground–alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!
That’s prayer to let God’s Word speak deep within you and tell you, “You are my beloved. You don’t have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you’re too rich for that.”
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
I was thinking of the Four Seasons, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and when I was thinking “Uptown Girl!” I was trying to sing like Frankie Valli. They had a song called “Ragdoll,” which was about a poor girl and a rich guy. So I just flipped it around and made it about a rich girl and a poor guy.
There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives.
No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart’s desire.
I don’t want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.
The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.
I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
I think publishing’s strength is also its weakness. It’s got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.
It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it’s the only way to deal with drugs. Look at Prohibition: all it did was make a lot of criminals rich. Should be legalized for a matter of sanity.
No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.
Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.
In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.
A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.
Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.
Rich countries have ‘kicked away the ladder’ by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.
I found a new me. When I first came over to America, it was like, ‘How can I be rich? How can I build my movie career? How can I become the most muscular man?’ It was all about me, and then there was this turn, and I found it was really great to do this.
Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.
An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him…He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.
A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.
Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question – do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.
You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men… I like playing bad guys, and I don’t have a problem doing that. They’re interesting characters, and there’s as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys – they’re rich, they’re strong, they’re powerful, and so that’s fine with me.
I don’t want to be rich, I just want to be loved.
In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.
If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.
When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn’t get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven’t read yet. That’s how I view that I’m rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.
When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn’t aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn’t something anyone had done yet.
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don’t mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
In India, it’s the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.
In fact that is the struggle that most Americans – As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.
Star Wars’ is so rich and it seems crazy that everyone’s, like, a white male guy. That’s due to the 1970s and the fact that it was shot in Britain, but I was very lucky: I’m British, I grew up in England, and I got to see myself represented in a film.
I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat … where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.
We are rich only through what we give.
Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!
If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want rich people to work you restore their incentive by giving them more, such as by cutting taxes.
In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.
You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods’ answer and tie Jupiter’s hands.
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.
Since we’re all rich with bitcoins … we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use.
