When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
Today’s youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn’t take that attitude forward with them.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Poverty is everyone’s problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.
I am certain that most composers today would consider today’s music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.
One thing hurts me. I keep hearing ‘Terry Fox.’ I’m not doing the run to become rich or famous… To me, being famous is not the idea of the run. The only important part is that cancer can be beaten.
I’m not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don’t know how he can survive. I don’t know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I’d love to be there to help Greg.
At Adaptive Path, we’ve been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we’re realizing we’ve only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.
The more films and TV shows I spoil for myself, the more I am convinced that truly interesting stories can’t be ruined – the plot thickens with the viewing like a rich sauce.
THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
When developing countries go to the WTO and register their protest over things, they should be heard. Their views should be considered by the rich countries.
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life’s pilgrimage.
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
When I was in the West Coast watching the Giants, Rich Aurilia was a guy I always liked.
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.
The rich, hearty flavor of portobello mushroom caps are a dynamite alternative to the traditional burger.
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
You don’t make a fortune doing cartoons. It’s a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it’s better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn’t make you rich. It just doesn’t.
Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn’t live like a star. He’d taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don’t think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
It’s not about being rich, but everyone back home has a pool. And I was a total water baby. My mom couldn’t get me out – she’d put my dinner plate at the end of the pool, and I’d eat my meals in the water.
History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it’s own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.
If you aren’t rich you should always look useful.
Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people – the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people – they’re all here.
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don’t mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
It’s such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It’s hard for fiction to compete with that.
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never – they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.
Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.
You can go into Mark Twain’s material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
My paintings are very strange – large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
This great country, this India, is woven of the rich individual strands of our regions, languages, religions, traditions, and communities through the ages. Yet its vibrant beauty can be seen only as a whole, a single seamless fabric, much greater than the sum of all the strands.
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there’s so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you’re able to see other people’s experiences.
What’s the subject of life – to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.
Ay, rail at gaming – ’tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city – you’ll find a congregation in every tavern.
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that’s really what gives life’s true meaning.
I’m living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
We got rich lawyers… The best lawyers on the planet.
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.
Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
