There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost. — Confucius Copy Share Image
You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one onlystumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started at Howard in the drama department. At the same time, I was a fledgling member of the Black Repertory Company… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
“There isn’t any way to be. I will meet you where you’ve gone. The cards are blank; the cards are empty there.… — Alice Notley Copy Share Image
Each quarter, Indian IT firms publish their results, and these are broadcast on CNBC. From the comfort of their boardrooms, executives say… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
“Fortune and fame," she said, "always on the horizon. And always some pitfall between you and it." "An excellent summation," I said,… — Felix Gilman Copy Share Image
To any young person starting out on life and looking to make a quick fortune, I have this advice: forget banking, but… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“You can't find happiness outside yourself, Calder." I shook my head. "You sound like a fortune cookie." "It's still true. Everyone's always… — Anne Greenwood Brown Copy Share Image
Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just… — William Tyler Copy Share Image
According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Trust me, if you want to complain, you’ll always find plenty to complain about, even when fortune appears to be shining her… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est: Nam timor eventus… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me. — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. — Plautus Copy Share Image
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. — Horace Copy Share Image
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day. — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So they, who climb to wealth, forget The friends in darker fortunes tried. I copied them--but I regret That I should ape… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule… — Homer Copy Share Image
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