When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“The fortune of life is to be useful to oneself as well as his or her fellow-creatures.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Everybody ends up in the same place , no matter your fortune , if you love money more then anything , you… — Nancy Copy Share Image
Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo.… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will… — Thomas Dekker Copy Share Image
“...good fortune is not only good fortune, and over the years things happened in that family that caused some terrible regret. Still,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss… — Charlotte Bronte 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
Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should… — Samuel Johnson 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
Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
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