We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.] — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own… — Francis Herbert Hedge Copy Share Image
Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the acting trade you are offered nothing to work like a dog, while at other times you get a fortune… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
“She shrugged. Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing… — Zack W. Van Copy Share Image
When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working… — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
(Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and… — Rob Paulsen Copy Share Image
“It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how… — Al Masudi Copy Share Image
Many a woman shudders ... atthe terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image