Wallets Quotes - Page 4

• One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

  Diogenes

  Children, Drinking, Hands

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use
  whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

  Alan Watts

  Gold, Use, Coins

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.4, New World Library

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• I want young people to be able to buy into what I design. When I was young, I wanted to buy designer brands even if all I could afford was the cheapest wallet, the cheapest pen, the cheapest T-shirt because I wanted to be a part of it.

  Nicola Formichetti

  People, Design, Want

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• If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a photo together? Can you give me your autograph?" They would bring their expensive Armani or Prada wallet to sign. Other people who are desperate show me a photo of their dead daughter and ask: Can you support me? I tell them: How can I? Morally, of course, I sympathize with you. But I cannot support you and you cannot support me. This is the condition of this society. We are separated.

  Ai Weiwei

  Daughter, Support You, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 on my IQ, likely to not go to college and likely to wear my pants below my arse.

  John Amaechi

  Mean, Past, College

  "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Take the cards out of your wallet. A debit card is accepted just about everywhere that credit cards are, and you'll be spending money you have - always a good thing.

  Jean Chatzky

  Cards, Credit, Accepted

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• [Before the Spirit] I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas [I wanted to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway. You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.

  Will Eisner

  Book, Kids, Kansas

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• My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

  Steve Tisch

  Father, Guy, Dinner

  "Super Bowl Q&A with … Steve Tisch". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 5, 2012.

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• In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.

  Hugo Weaving

  Children, Real, Fighting

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• Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.

  Frank Luntz

  Irs, Voters, Purses

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• The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.

  Jennifer James

  Grief, Law, Mind

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• Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.

  George Herbert

  Two, Bread, Estates

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.228

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• The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Military, Causes, Empty

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• As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

  Dan John

  Pills, Doers, Protect

  Dan John (2009). “Never Let Go”, p.266, On Target Publications

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• I tend to wear a coat more for the fact that I worry if I'm going to get drunk, I'm going to get pickpocketed. And a coat goes over your pockets so it's harder for someone to get their hand in and steal your phone or wallet out of your pocket. It's an unnecessary level of thinking that may lessen the enjoyment you have out of life.

  Jon Richardson

  Thinking, Phones, Hands

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize for it. A junkie will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. But ultimately I think all addictions boil down to just not being able to be with yourself for any long degree of time.

  Jerry Stahl

  Thinking, Differences, Addiction

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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• In the kingdome of a cheater the wallet is carried before.

  George Herbert

  Cheater

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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• If your marketing is not delivering consumers to the cash register with their wallets in their hands to buy your product, don't do it.

  Sergio Zyman

  Hands, Marketing, Cash

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• Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Balance, Rich

  "George Osborne unveils employee 'shares for rights' scheme" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2012.

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• You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

  John Dufresne

  Keys, Missing, Knows

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

  Allison Pearson

  Children, Men, Worry

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• It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Grateful, Glad To Be Alive, Shooting

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• To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright - our grandfather in the white socks - is the thing that ruined us.

  Charlie LeDuff

  Men, Our Generation, White

  Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.27, Penguin

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• Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave tips when dining out of town. Julie Nelson reminds us that most people aren't really like that. She helps point the way to a richer, more descriptive way of thinking about economic life.

  Robert H. Frank

  Thinking, People, Presidential

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