Flash Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner Download Open image “Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.” — Sylvia Townsend Warner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flash Money Wealth Wealthy
To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Becoming wealthy is like playing Monopoly.. the person who can accumulate the most assets wins the game. — Noel Whittaker Copy Share Image
All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“To put it baldly, there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others. The former adds to society. The latter typically subtracts from it, for in the process of taking it away, wealth gets destroyed. A monopolist who overcharges for his product takes money from those whom he is overcharging and at… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share
Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“It is,” answered Laura with almost violent agreement. “If you are a were-wolf, and very likely you may be, for lots of people are… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share
Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share
Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists of fragments where some are so blinding in their intensity that they make everything else indistinguishable. It feels as if my existence was extinguished in a flash, and afterwards my universe became incomprehensible. I want to… — Linda Olsson Copy Share
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know. — Kevin Garnett Copy Share Image
You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been… — Dave Stevens Copy Share
There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure,… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share
In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
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