“When events turn out so much better for a man than he has had reason to dread, is it not a proof… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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
“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued you’ll always fancy yourself to be short of the things you… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and "fashionable")… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the… — Chris Sarandon Copy Share Image
To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune.… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and the 'economy of privilege.'… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius Copy Share Image
Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that… — John T. Chambers Copy Share Image
You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Obamacare is, number one and maybe least importantly, it's costing the country a fortune. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and… — Arthur Helps 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
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different… — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
