#rich

Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us. ↗

— Mary Pope Osborne

#rich #victorian-age #age

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#action #against #bin #bush #chief

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?' ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#dad #does #everyone #famous #mom

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky. ↗

— Graham Norton

#been #bit #cash #exposure #famous

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#different #eight #ever #every #every night

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits. ↗

— Rand Paul

#make #medicare #more #pay #rich

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#many #moment #private #reward #rich

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#fully #impotence #only #rich #sick

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ahead #already #assertion #been #creative

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. ↗

— Simon Raven

#charity #disgraced #each #failed #fine