R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.”
Source: Canada and the Canadian Question ...
“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.”
Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“Rich Christiansen is one of the most insightful, practical and cost-conscious entrepreneurs in the world today. Listen to Rich. He won't steer you wrong.”
“Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.”
“Rich contemplation in absolute solitude can cause a radical overhaul of our thought process.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“Rich could play way better than Krupa.”
“Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.”
“Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.”
“Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.”
“Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.”
Source: Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity
“Rich countries want unfettered access to poor countries' markets, which are often heavily protected by tariffs, but they don't want to give up all the protections for their own goods and services.”
“Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".”
“Rich dad said it this way, 'Big people have big dreams and small people have small dreams. If you want to change who you are, begin by changing the size of your dreams.'”
“Rich dad
thought it best to go broke before 30.
"You still have time to recover".”
“Rich dad went on to explain that the world was filled with different types of entrepreneurs. There are entrepreneurs who are big and small, rich and poor, honest and crooked, for-profit and not-for-profit, saint and sinner, small town and international, and successes and failures. He said, "The word entrepreneur is a big word and it means different things to different people."”
“Rich don't work for money. They work for assets.”
“Rich folk don't try so hard”
Source: The Help
“Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.”
“Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
“Rich get richer. Everyone else gets poorer. And all these guys can talk about is war and defunding Planned Parenthood.”
“Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest”
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
“Rich girls never left something expensive on the ground, unless they’d been the one to toss it there.”
Source: The Dazzling Heights
“Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.”
“Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices had evolved over the years into a principle: The best government is the one that gets out of the way. The attacks on the Taj and the Oberoi, in which executives and socialites died, had served as a blunt correction. The wealthy now saw that their security could not be requisitioned privately. They were dependent on the same public safety system that ill served the poor.”
Source: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
“Rich is he who thinks he is rich and poor is he who thinks he is poor.”
“Rich is not the one who's got a lot of dough, but one whose touch make others forget their woe.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Rich is rich, there’s no old or new about it!”
Source: Serenad
“Rich is the man who sees value in every person, even if there is none to be found.”
Source: Lady Jayne Disappears
“Rich is the person who stops long enough to listen to a bird sing in the celebration of spring, peer into the deep blue of a drowsy summer sky, draw in the pungent aroma of fall’s leaves, and watch the listless kiss of a winter’s snow. For in doing these you have witnessed that which money cannot purchase and man cannot create.”
“Rich is the person who thinks beyond their own lives and lives in like manner.”
“Rich isn't an amount of money, it's a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can.”
“Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!”
“Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.”
“Rich kids—they can never admit they’re rich.”
Source: Night Fisher
“Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.”
“Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.”
“Rich loved taking care of women. He would swoop in like Tarzan swinging on a vine, rescue them from whatever situation they found themselves in, and be their hero. He would make all the decisions, and he would be strong and dependable. "What a catch!" they would feel.
But they did not see his inability to allow them to disagree or have an opinion. He could not yield to another person. He could not show weakness or vulnerability. He would make up for that inflexibility by being a very attractive "strong man" to women who would want to be swept off their feet more than they wanted a real person.
So, they would be a perfect match—until he would see the other side of a passive, compliant woman. She would be sneaky and not tell him exactly what was going on. Then, lo and behold, one day she would really "mess up" and have a wish contrary to somthing he wanted or valued. Then, from his perspective, she had "changed" and had become "selfish." "She used to be nice, and now look!"
But in reality, this is not what had happened. She had not changed. When they first met, she showed only half of who she was, hiding the other half, which would come out in sneaky, indirect ways. After a while, it came out directly, such as when she disagreed with him. Then he would cry, "Foul."
So they both got what they asked for. In her compliance, she attracted a controller. In his control he attracted an adaptive person who had a secret side and was indirect. They were co-conspirators, and it always blew up.”
Source: How to Get a Date Worth Keeping
“Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.”
“Rich man, poor man, come away.
Come to dance the Macabray.
Time to work and time to play,
Time to dance the Macabray.
One and all will hear and stay
Come and dance the Macabray.
One to leave and one to stay,
And all to dance the Macabray.
Step and turn, and walk and stay,
Now we dance the Macabray.
Now the Lady on the Grey
Leads us in the Macabray
All must dance the Macabray”
Source: The Graveyard Book
“Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers,
And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
A poet's face asleep in this grey morn.
Now in the midst of the old world forlorn
A mystic child is set in these still hours.
I keep this time, even before the flowers,
Sacred to all the young and the unborn.”
Source: Poems
“Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...”
Source: Poems
“Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.”
“Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness in exactly the same proportion as persons in all other walks of life do.”
“Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.”
“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
Source: The Many Deaths of the Black Company
“Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.”