#rich

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#certain #death #face #give #off

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ↗

— Karl Rove

#adams #arranged #hire #james #jefferson

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this. ↗

— Panayiotis Zavos

#famous #interested #jacksons #michael #not interested

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon. ↗

— Karl Rove

#establishment #nixon #nor #party #reagan

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#die #poor #rich #wage #who

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich. ↗

— Mike Royko

#contrary #money #much #poor #popular

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#against #barack #barack obama #because #been

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#because #been #big #clerk #dad

Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#country #god #granted #kosovo #lot

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fact #meaning #records #richest #story