Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well. — Alec Wilkinson Copy Share Image
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
You will be tested as a leader…You may be tested with success, fame, and fortune. — Greg Laurie Copy Share Image
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than… — George Graham Vest Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust 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
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin… — D.B.C. Pierre Copy Share Image
Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial. The young people I meet want more freedom - to start firms,… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If they gave me a fortune, My treasure would be small: I could lose it all tomorrow And never mind at all.… — Tom Springfield Copy Share Image
From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues;… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le… — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
Too caught up in me to see, I'm holding a fortune that heaven has given to me. I'll try and show you… — Richard Marx Copy Share Image
If I had not made a film like 'Vaanaprastham,' I would not have been able to go to Cannes or any other… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best,… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has… — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“The answer is, I chose to seek my fortune. Failed. Lost all. Then got a fortune I had not ever looked for.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of… — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society,… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
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