Quotes About The Almighty Dollar

#1. The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

Washington Irving

#2. Door money. It's a distraction. It impedes judgment. It blurs focus. Chasing the almighty dollar can become the root of all evil, the bane of one's existence.

Carlos Wallace

#3. These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

John Muir

#4. Germans Francis Grund, and Francis Lieber, and the Pole Adam G. de Gurowski all wrote about the striking social equality they found in America, the absence of differences in status. They all noted the American obsession with work and the restless quest for the "almighty dollar."18

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Andrew Carnegie

#6. Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

Charles R. Swindoll

#7. The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

George Strait

#8. We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

Mark Twain

#9. My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#10. The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

Isabella Bird

#11. The Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are!

Theodore Guerin

#12. The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Rudolf Virchow

#13. I've missed you so fucking much," he said quietly. "Nothing has made sense in my life without you.

Elizabeth Finn

#14. Lightness can be found after the dark; appreciated when seldom seen.

Gisele T. Siegmund

#15. Ego is based on judgment. Stop judging and you will be free from the ego: in the Oneness there is no judgment, only Unconditional Love.

Human Angels

#16. The only way I'll really smile is if you cut me ear to ear.

Oliver Sykes

#17. people give you the wrong expecctations and then blame you when you can't meet them. It's your fault for not being the person they want you to be . You're the freak. You're the monster. When in reality, you're just trying to be... yourself.

Chris Colfer

#18. It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

Helen Garner

#19. I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.

P.L. Travers

#20. My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go.
Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?

Eileen Wilks

#21. That doesn't mean you don't need back-up, Seth retorted. I wished he'd just go puke somewhere. I

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. But there's a million of these
towns that are like factories,
breeding hate and fear that only
the fortunate will never meet
And these zoomed up
kids die like saints, for
someone else's
dollar

Phil Volatile