#money

I don't like bullshit and pretense. I can't enjoy the joy at church... without some cash in my wallet. ↗

— Toba Beta

#money #pretense #money

Erica had asked me a million times. 'Madison, are you sure you’re just the child minder? He pays you a lot of money for doing hardly anything.' Pushing aside the blatant insinuation that I was his weekend whore, I’d always told her the absolute truth. He’d never so much as looked at me inappropriately, let alone anything more. ↗

— Kyra Lennon

#romance #money

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without. ↗

— Amy Dacyczyn

#voluntary-simplicity #money

Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#greed #need #money

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have. ↗

— Robert B. Reich

#happiness #money

When someone loves you so much that He dies for you, you can trust that any rewards He promises are going to be good. ↗

— David Servant

#hell #money #radical #reward #stewardship

and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest. ↗

— Tim Lane

#money

An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#self-pity #money

To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture--a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given. ↗

— Hudson Taylor

#money

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them. ↗

— William Faulkner

#injustice #money