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Quotes About Prosperous

Anthropology provides Archer with terminology to expose the ferocity and, more important, the hypocrisy characterizing his prosperous, upper-class social community.
~ Edith Wharton
Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.
~ Douglas Brinkley
Developing economies may not have much control over the headwinds that they face today, but that does not mean that they are powerless. Much can be done not just to sustain moderate growth but also to secure a more prosperous and resilient future.
~ Michael Spence
The Enlightenment diamond-shaped society, with a huge, prosperous, socially-mobile, empowered middle class, is by far the most productive and creative system the world has ever seen.
~ David Brin
In the prosperous household of Sylvie's childhood, Cook was called 'Cook' but Mrs Glover preferred 'Mrs Glover'. It made her irreplaceable. Sylvie still stubbornly referred to her as Cook.
~ Kate Atkinson
she was the picture of a prosperous, semi-traditional Hong
~ Elizabeth Lowell
The princess hardly showed herself; Anna was English, besides being more or less of a lunatic — the combination, when you came to think of it, was alarming, — and they soon wearied of pouring into each other's highly sceptical ears descriptions of the splendours of their prosperous days.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
~ Ban Ki-moon
In the 1930s in Wörgle, Austria, the Mayor issued private money just for the city, and Wörgle became the most prosperous city in Austria. They built a new bridge, industry and local business thrived. And when the Bank of Austria found out about it, they had it suppressed.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
If you desire it, promised the Tin Woodman, leaning back in his tin throne and crossing his tin legs. I haven't related my history in a long while, because everyone here knows it nearly as well as I do. But you, being a stranger, are no doubt curious to learn how I became so beautiful and prosperous, so I will recite for your benefit my strange adventures.
~ L. Frank Baum
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
~ Plutarch
the American founding document promises that if humans act according to its sacred principles, millions of them would be able to cooperate effectively, living safely and peacefully in a just and prosperous society
~ Yuval Noah Harari
happiness depends on expectations rather than objective conditions. We don't become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' son. Like many Hellenistic cities populated by Greeks who intermarried with indigenous people, Pergamon after Alexander the Great's death (323 B.C.) had evolved a hybrid of democracy and Persian-influenced monarchy.
~ Adrienne Mayor
What would you know about anything, Jasper?" Augustus asked. "Age don't slow a man's whoring. It's lack of income that does that. No more prosperous than you look, I wouldn't think you'd know much about it.
~ Larry McMurtry
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.
~ Edwin Land
Galveston was too pretty, too progressive, too prosperous—entirely too hopeful—to be true.
~ Erik Larson
To him the area looked more like a prosperous international corporation rather than the nerve center of a city hospital. There was even a glass-fronted conference room with a large mahogany library table and captain's chairs that looked to Brian more like it belonged in a bank.
~ Robin Cook
Here's the real gift from your excellence and devotion over the sixty-six or so days: the willpower you were using to lay down the early-rising habit is now freed up for another world-class behavior, so you have the chance to grow even more productive, prosperous, joyful and successful
~ Robin S. Sharma
I am grateful. And I am forgiving. I am giving. My life is beautiful, creative, productive, prosperous and magical.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Lucky, lucky
~ Jilly Cooper
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
~ Orison Swett Marden
There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous.
~ Judd Gregg
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
~ Quintilian