Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of… — Plautus Copy Share Image
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
I had the great good fortune to have Chuck Jones as a mentor and one of my first questions to him, was… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will… — Thomas Dekker Copy Share Image
The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo.… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“...good fortune is not only good fortune, and over the years things happened in that family that caused some terrible regret. Still,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“They do everything in their power to make fortune favor them in this life, but nevertheless they think so little of it,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“AIDAN: The concept of fortune is nonsensical, but Kady is insisting I wish you both good luck anyway. AIDAN: So good luck,… — Amie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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