First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“If one is going to spend her afternoon singing hymns to the great porcelain goddess, she might as well do it in… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Draft is about the re-generation of hope and excitement for teams. Every pick your team makes could be the next Tom… — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and… — BENTLEY LITTLE Copy Share Image
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What I “discovered” was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex… — Jerry Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that.… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face,… — Boethius Copy Share Image
The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for… — Plato Copy Share Image
God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it,… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Some of us know how we came by our fortune, and some of us don't, but we wear it all the same.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a… — Daniel Schorr Copy Share Image
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated… — Sallust Copy Share Image