It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people… — David Spade Copy Share Image
We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded… — Hannibal Copy Share Image
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've come from a fantastic, working class area and to actually have the fortune to be given that opportunity to get out… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad… — Dallas Clayton Copy Share Image
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
“I don't trust good fortune that comes so easily. There is always a price to be paid, Frannie. Always." He gave her… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and… — Katarina Witt Copy Share Image
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
“He digs out a fortune cookie fortune from his mouth, as if his mouth has a pocket. It says THE SIMPLEST ANSWER… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the… — James MacArthur Copy Share Image
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
At Halloween, when fairy sprites Perform their mystic gambols, When ilka witch her neebour greets, On their nocturnal rambles; When elves at… — Janet Little Copy Share Image
Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an… — Lionel Messi Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
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