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Quotes About Rich

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.
~ T. Harv Eker
One such family, the Stewarts, went as far as building a mansion opposite that of Mrs Astor so that she could not avoid seeing them. What perhaps they did not realise was that she so guarded the exclusiveness on which her myth was founded that she would not even go near her own windows lest the crowds that thronged Fifth Avenue hoping to catch a glimpse of the rich and famous should see her.
~ Anne de Courcy
Many people think nature is beautiful, many people sleep from time to time under starry sky, and many people in hospitals and prisons long for the day when they'll be free to enjoy what nature has to offer. But few are as isolated and cut off as we are from the joys of nature, which can be shared by rich and poor alike.
~ Anne Frank
But vampires feel cold as acutely as humans, and the blood of the kill is often the rich, sensual alleviation of that cold. But
~ Anne Rice
Vampires loath witches, whether they're rich or poor. Anyone who reads the story of Merrick Mayfair can see why.
~ Anne Rice
Vampires loathe witches, whether they're rich or poor. Anyone who reads the story of Merrick Mayfair can see why.
~ Anne Rice
heavy satin that fell like spilled syrup...
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
I know what coming back to America from a war zone is like because I've done it so many times. First there is a kind of shock at the level of comfort and affluence that we enjoy, but that is followed by the dismal realization that we live in a society that is basically at war with itself. People speak with incredible contempt about—depending on their views—the rich, the poor, the educated, the foreign-born, the president, or the entire US government.
~ Sebastian Junger
a tax structure that heavily favors the very rich while damaging most other classes. The favored group can then translate the windfall into political power. They become "a political donor class" that raises millions for the Republican Party and throws a few crumbs and broad hints to the Democrats.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
Hell, sometimes it feels like the whole country is on fire. Like a constant conflagration is burning too close to all poor people. Shouldn't rich-ass America be taking care of everybody?
~ Sherman Alexie
She'd been a resourceful thief, a narcissistic Robin Hood who stole a rich education from white people and kept it.
~ Sherman Alexie
Nick was dressed in jeans, a dark green sweater, and bomber jacket–the perfect image of a rich college student. Talon looked like a biker who had just left Sanctuary, New Orleans's premier biker bar. Acheron looked like a refugee from the Dungeon–the local underground goth hangout. Valerius was the professional contingent, and Zarek…Zarek just looked like he was ready to kill something.' (Talon)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I still wanna know who to sue to get my store fixed. (Bubba) I'm a turnip. Sue the rich kid who started it. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you've shown me. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.
~ David Hockney
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
~ Edward Abbey
Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
~ Michael Gove
Whatever direction your life takes, your underlying themes remain. Discover and explore your themes to open the way for rich creative development.
~ Nita Leland
There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.
~ Rosita Forbes
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
~ Julianna Baggott
The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.
~ Katherine Paterson
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy