#riches

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you don't know where to look, and that's what I consider self-indulgent. ↗

— John Dykstra

#better #consider #directors #embarrassment #end

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. ↗

— John Locke

#most #nothing #ostentation #part #riches

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#benefit #come #country #diamonds #discovered

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cell-phones #heaven #heavenly #man #mobile

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms ↗

— John Steinbeck

#change

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#ever #i #individuals #know #miserable

America does not fight for land, glory or riches. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#does #fight #glory #land #riches

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#against #assault #asset #been #essential

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bracket #called #decade #imagine #into

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#fame #goodness #honesty #honor #money