Best 1417 quotes in «rich quotes» category

Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.

All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

A magnificent achievement that witnesses powerfully to the rich development, harmony, and piety of the Reformed faith.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

Americans like to humiliate wrongdoers...We like, in short, to punish. It makes us feel good. By every conceivable metric - arrests, prosecutions, duration of sentences, conditions of imprisonment - the United States is by far the most punitive rich democracy.

A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

And although Margarita lived in a world that predated Technicolor, she always dreamed of the boy in rich pastels.

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.

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

Anyone can be rich in promises.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear.  Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

A rich diet does lead to earlier puberty but to my knowledge it does not student the adolescent growth spurt. Early pregnancy, before reaching adult height, does slow or stop growth.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

A single thought can revolutionize your life as it did mine. A single thought can make you rich or it can land you in prison for the rest of your life.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

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.

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.

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.