There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
You talk to - I had a good fortune of getting to spend a lot of time with Uncle Miltie and guys… — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
“Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room or… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to be in some movies when I was younger that, for whatever reason, people identified with or… — Elden Henson Copy Share Image
If the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss. — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded… — Hannibal Copy Share Image
It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I'm a radical pro-immigration advocate. I'm not saying we just look at the Muslim world or we just look at China, we… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.” (Jane… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is… — Horace Copy Share Image
If you ask me what is the best good fortune in my life, of course I say that I have seen in… — Joachim Sauer Copy Share Image
“We don’t need eyes to judge people’s beauty; but unfortunately we judge them as we see.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts. — Livy Copy Share Image
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married. — Anna Held Copy Share Image
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Hugh Hefner was a trailblazer. He followed his bliss and his bliss lead him to a billion-dollar fortune. — Sherlyn Chopra Copy Share Image
“With so much at stake, and so many fortunes to be made, benevolent intentions can easily be drowned out. She” — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image