So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and… — Henry George Copy Share Image
But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him,… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Many people make their lives miserable simply because they forget their fortunes and blessings; but tenaciously remember all the unfortunate things happened… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your… — Stanley Ho Copy Share Image
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of… — Faustino Ballve Copy Share Image
The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange,… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is… — W.K. Marriott Copy Share Image
“Fortune favors the brave." Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
I got a fortune cookie today. It said I should invest in something fun on four wheels. I don't know if that… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl… — Shaun Alexander Copy Share Image
One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick… — Patrick Warburton Copy Share Image
If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable 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
“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we… — Thomas Browne 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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