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Quotes About Rich

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
~ William Blake
We were mining a rich lode of bliss. But disaster never felt far away.
~ William Finnegan
None of that, he said, had necessarily been as bad for very rich people. The richest had gotten richer, there being fewer to own whatever there was. Constant crisis had provided constant opportunity
~ William Gibson
If you believe the journalists, he's the single wealthiest individual, period. As rich as some zaibatsu. But there's the catch, really: is he an individual? In the sense that you are, or I am? No.
~ William Gibson
As in Kiev, so across the cities of Russia, among the dreaming rich.
~ China Mieville
A slick of vagabonds, petty thieves and their bosses, discharged foreign soldiers, discharged jailbirds, dissolute rich and tinkers, beggars, pimps and their charges, chancers, knife-grinders, poets and police agents.
~ China Mieville
Asif Ali maneuvers the gleaming Mercedes down the labyrinthine lanes of Old Kolkata with consummate skill, but his passengers do not notice how smoothly he avoids potholes, cows and beggars, how skilfully he sails through aging yellow lights to get the Bose family to their destination on time. This disappoints Asif only a little. In his six years of chauffeuring the rich and callous, he has realized that, to them, servants are invisible.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When you're different, on the down side, you learn to live from one scarce rich moment to the next, no matter the distance between.
~ Chris Crutcher
We are merry people," added Hercules. "We rob from the rich and pour it on the floor." "No," said Robin. "We rob from the rich and give to the poor." Hercules nodded. "Right. Got it. Sorry.
~ Chris Grabenstein
I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
~ Hector Elizondo
Will you dare, I ask, to condemn the unfairness inherent in the judicial system which metes out one brand of justice for the rich and one for the poor?
~ Helen Prejean
Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration which the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies. Where ten-penny Jack looks with contempt upon nine-penny Joe, the social injustice which makes the masses of the people hewers of wood and drawers of water for a privileged few, has the strongest bulwarks.
~ Henry George
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
~ Henry Miller
It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no religion is no longer needed.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Jesus loves us too much to leave us thinking or believing that a rich and meaningful life is found in anything other than loving and serving him.
~ Leslie Vernick
The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
~ lewis c s iii
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.
~ Tippi Hedren
I used to routinely turn down things that might compound the impression that I was some kind of vacuous blonde. But now, when I look back, I think I should have done them because I would be very rich - being taken seriously isn't all it's cracked up to be.
~ Mariella Frostrup
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
~ Bill Gates
Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.
~ Balaji Srinivasan
I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that I don't think of them as work in the usual sense of the word.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.
~ Dave Morris
I think calling what Paul Ryan is doing a 'budget' is lending some validity to it. It is not a budget. If it were a budget, he could justify his revenue projections, he could justify his cuts, and he can't. This is a scheme to rob the poor and give to the rich.
~ Marcia Fudge