Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly… — Anne of Austria Copy Share Image
“According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
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A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of… — E. Nesbit 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
Property in Provence can cost a fortune if you don't know where to look and a glass of champagne sipped on the… — Carol Drinkwater 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
Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much… — Alanis Morissette 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
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“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
Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary… — Paul Gascoigne 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
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