America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense. — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government. — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to… — William Kidd Copy Share Image
Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“Love may spring to life. Love may wither and die. Fortunes may come. Fortunes may go. But it is hope that creates… — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
“Many come to seek fortunes who only find trouble and sorrow, and then they throw the blame on chance, and forget the… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
For me, it [Crimea] is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
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
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“be content with your own life whowever it is a real possesion in the changing fortunes of time” — rey arthur Copy Share Image
“More fortunes in money and in the material things of life have been lost by those who hesitated out of fear than… — H. Spencer Lewis Copy Share Image
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after. — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate,… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people… — Thomas Steinbeck 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 people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of other ways to get money, including chance, speculation, marriage, inheritance, theft, extortion, fraud, monopoly, graft, lobbying, counterfeiting, and… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
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