Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a… — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
“Talents are seeds of greatness. With big dreams well dispensed in form of achievements, you can pick money from people’s pockets and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It's risky to show poor Americans. People see it as a downer. But I really wanted to make a tightly wound piece… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life: 1. Leadership without character. 2. Followership without servant-being. 3. Brotherhood without integrity. 4. Affluence without… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Affluence isn't affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else's affluence is mere tat. Until you've experienced that perfume-washed air… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
Man's birth is a lottery; it may be in the pleasant home of ease and affluence, or in the hut of poverty;… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Time is exactly what we do not have. What decreases in a culture of affluence is precisely and strangely time—along with wisdom… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Practicing the Law of Giving is actually very simple; if you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Donald Trump connected with the American public because they wanted to be like him. They aspired to be just like him. They… — Omarosa Manigault Copy Share Image
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be a poor man.” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed was once asked: what is affluence? He said : Decreasing your wishes , and being satisfied with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.” — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
“No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
