Bigger Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett Download Open image “Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bigger Desire Income Way
Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves,… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Our societies have achieved a general level of prosperity of which most of all the human beings who have ever lived could only dream.… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
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Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture. — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what… — Dave Willis Copy Share Image
If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
