Rich Quotes - page 10

Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections. (George Bernard Shaw)
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. View quote
Emil Cioran
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. View quote
Maya Angelou
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. View quote
Cesare Pavese
America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all." View quote
Alberto Gonzales
I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living. View quote
William Saroyan
I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich. View quote
William Saroyan
But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. View quote
Roger Ebert
The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it. View quote
Arundhati Roy
Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. View quote
James Connolly
In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse. (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience. View quote
Hans Hofmann
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
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. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions. View quote
Anaïs Nin
It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day. View quote
David Gemmell
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. View quote
André Maurois
The beauty of me is that I'm very rich. View quote
Donald Trump
God only, who made us rich, can make us poor. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the foundation of early races. View quote
Willa Cather
There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich. (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. View quote
Gloria Steinem
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. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ''The very rich are different from you and me.'' And how someone had said to Julian, ''Yes, they have more money.'' View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu