Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings. ”

Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money. ”

I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you give birth or adopt - you're perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they're fathers. ”

Basically, what we've done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who've helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in the boxes got to give it away. ”

Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't. ”

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. ”

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. ”

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way. I help panhandlers, but other people are, 'Oh look at that - why doesn't he get a job?' While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly. ”

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding 'In the beginning' in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing. ”

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories. ”