Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that… — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good,… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper. — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for,Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest.Guided by the… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
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
People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our… — James Atlas Copy Share Image
I spent my youth and my most formative years in Africa. I left Africa when I was about 20, 21, and when… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But when the seesaw of good fortune sinks downward for one person, it is very often on its way up for someone… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“It's not enough just to laugh at good fortune and say, 'Enough already.' You have to really mean it -- that you… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“A man finds good thing and favor when he finds a good wife. A woman lives in good fortune when she gets… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. — Benjamin Franklin 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
There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
“The journey is everything. Most necessary of all, but rarest good fortune, we should try to find some man of our own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about… — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
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