With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them.… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
“Uniquely, people who made suicide attempts were found to be especially prone to so-called "fortune telling," through which they predict and firmly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think back to having had the good fortune of being at Warner Bros. when we were doing 'Lois & Clark.' The… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Black people are often praised as heroes for saving a country that treats us like third-class citizens, yet when it comes to… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Trump made his fortune manipulating tax laws and stiffing small businessmen, creating a few well-paying jobs along the way. Vulnerable people looking… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“I think in my old age I've come to realize just how precious everything is and I try to value the many… — Phil Hartman Copy Share Image
I won the national award for the best music composer and also had the fortune of scoring music for songs penned by… — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was… — Anna Nicole Smith Copy Share Image
“The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson… — Sal Martinez Copy Share Image
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
“For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones'… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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