Rich Quotes - Page 17

• Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Practice, Atheism

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.

  Dan Poynter

  Book, Writing, Effort

  Dan Poynter (2000). “Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books”, Para Pub

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• Those who are saying it's possible [to balance family and business] are often in a little bit of a rarefied place where they also have the money to do that. It's not quite such an easy stance to take when you don't have the same resources. I like to remind people that these are rich Manhattanites and to keep an eye on the fact that, especially with social media and these articles and these blogs, that that is not the reality for most women, unfortunately.

  Mindy Kaling

  Eye, Reality, Media

  Source: variety.com

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• The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that you see from people on Wall Street, their dismissal and their almost contempt for the concerns about their culpability in the financial crisis, about the income inequality, shows that they are completely out of touch.

  Robin Wells

  Wall, Believe, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  Martin Luther (2007). “Through the Year with Martin Luther: A Selection of Sermons Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Christian Year”, p.412, Hendrickson Publishers

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sea, Land, Rising

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Girlfriend, Cousin, Motivation

  "Mythical Proportions: An Exclusive Interview With Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson". Interview with Matt Tuthill, www.muscleandfitness.com.

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• We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!

  Nigel Farage

  Would Be, Want, Awful

  "Ukip's Nigel Farage ridicules David Cameron's EU referendum speech" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we're not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We're all Americans.

  Bobby Jindal

  Tired, Race, African American

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what, in a sense, market fundamentalism does, because it is in the interests of people who have a lot of money to have as little taxes as possible.

  George Soros

  People, Political, Doe

  Source: globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com

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• Carlos Tevez is so rich that when he retires he'll never have to play football again

  Andy Gray

  Football, Play, Retiring

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• Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Fun, Sacrifice

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• Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

  Jim Bridenstine

  Suffering, Lobbyists, Fairness

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• Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.

  J. Hoberman

  Fun, Hollywood, Entertainment

  "Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Makes Holocaust Revisionism Fun". The Village Voice Review, www.villagevoice.com. August 18, 2009.

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• The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.

  Bill Gates

  Justice, United States, Should

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• although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

  Anais Nin

  Time, Hate, Believe

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• As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Generosity, Twenties

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• THE ABULON DANCE is an intricate and fast-paced novel of political intrigue and clashing alien cultures. The characterizations are rich, detailed, and subtle, the action engrossing. I finished it in a single sitting.

  Robin Wayne Bailey

  Political, Culture, Sitting

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• Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.

  Tony Fernandes

  Men, Goal, Aviation

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• Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Pitfalls, Extravagance

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hacterus ... : with a Portrait of the Author”, p.261

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• Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Lotuses, Green

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Proverbial philosophy”, p.19

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• People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dying, Finals, Mausoleum

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2460, Delphi Classics

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• To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Poor, Granada

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• Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Pride, Men

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