Prestige Wealth Quotes

#1. What happened?" she asked.
"The landing pad blew up."
"Oh," she said. And then, "do they do that?"
"No. No, they really don't.

James S.A. Corey

#2. What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

Emma Goldman

#3. With her dark eyes, elegant nose and olive complexion, Claire looked timeless, old-worldly.

Sarah Addison Allen

#4. Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

Charles Kingsley

#5. Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.

Alex Tabarrok

#6. It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.

Robert Patterson

#7. At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character.

Howard W. Hunter

#8. Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige.

Coco J. Ginger

#9. gratuitous masturbation
of the
psyche.

Charles Bukowski

#10. All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play.

Christopher Atkins

#11. I don't need prestige or wealth," he said softly. "I need you, and I want you with me forever.

Melanie Dickerson

#12. I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

William J. Clinton

#13. I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.

Derek Barton

#14. How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. It is sexy in here or is it just me?

Darynda Jones

#16. In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

A.J.P. Taylor

#17. Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

Steven Biko

#18. The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

Robert Payne

#19. He's no Turner Campbell, but the kiss is different than anything I've ever felt before. It's like kissing death, but in a good way. Like having a bite of that final rest, tasting soothing comfort and reassurance.

C.M. Stunich

#20. Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.

Gina Bellman

#21. Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#22. We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

S.I. Hayakawa

#23. The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power.

Mark Kurlansky

#24. Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#25. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded.

Ayn Rand