#wallet

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#collapse #coming #covering #economic #financial

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american life #anywhere #becomes #enriches #except

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. "Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person." ↗

— Anthony LaPaglia

#car keys #find #get #go #go find

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#banker #bus #containing #crime #fare

Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#anywhere #badly #beat #been #carry

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#came #carries #father #his #kid

I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket. ↗

— Ben Crenshaw

#explain #his #i #i can #moved

Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#benefit #democracy #element #elements #enough

Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. ↗

— Robin Williams

#divorce #genitals #his #latin #man

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#consists #counting #example #for example #government