Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

Richard Dawkins

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

Richelle Mead

Hey." She said, looking up from an open book propped up on one knee. She brushed a few strands of pale hair out of her face. Her boyfriend, Christian, lay on the floor near her, his head propped up on her other knee. He greeted me by way of a nod. Concidering the antagonism the sometimes flared up between us, that was almost on par with him giving me a bear hug.

Richelle Mead

Iʹve seen you too. Ozera. Crispin, right?ʺ ʺChristian,ʺ corrected Lissa. ʺRight.ʺ .... ʺSo what brings you and Christopher here?ʺ asked Blake. He finished a glass of something amber colored and set it down beside the new drink. ʺChristian,ʺ said Christian. .... Blake gave her puppy-dog eyes. ʺBut you just got here! I was hoping we could get to know each other.ʺ It went without saying what he meant by that. ʺOh. And Kreskin too.

Richelle Mead

That was Sydney Sage," said Lissa. "I thought they were all in West Virginia. Why isn't she with Rose?" "That," said Abe darkly, "is an excellent question." "Because they were apparently kidnapping Jill Mastrano in Detroit," said Christian. "Which is weird. But not the craziest thing I can think of Rose doing.

Richelle Mead

Boy is he pissed," said Adrian. "Do you blame him?" asked Christian. "He just lost memerbship in the evil mastermind club. His brilliant plan fell apart, and now his daughter's missing when he thought she was somewhere safe." Adrian stayed pointedly silent.

Richelle Mead

I can't wait until this show gets on the road," he said. "You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories..." The reference to "ghost stories" hit a little closer to home than I was comfortable with. Not that choosing curtains or brushing Christian's hair was much more appealing.

Richelle Mead

Even Christian—the poster child for "smartass"—looked grim.

Richelle Mead

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

Juvenal

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

W. S. Merwin

I offer you what I have my Poverty

Walter Savage Landor

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

George Gissing

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Napoleon Hill

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Nelson Mandela

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Kirk Douglas

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

Pam Grier

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Samuel Johnson

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Roger Ebert

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

William E. Gladstone

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

Henry George

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

James Cook

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

Norman Vincent Peale

Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

Robert Luketic

It's not going to be contemptuous of wealth and ambition,

Ann Thompson

They were wealthy and there have to be more.

Noam Chomsky

Palestinians have no wealth or power.