No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . .… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was… — James Burrows Copy Share Image
I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career.… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune of having a long and varied career. Looking back, some might think things have been plain sailing… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A… — Adam Baldwin Copy Share Image
I've been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I've spent a small fortune there… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
I do consider myself a postfeminist. I just want women to have choices - they can be CEOs of Fortune 500 companies,… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second,… — The Talmud Copy Share Image
A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Allowing yourself to be a conduit for opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortune cannot enter a locked door,… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
We're with each other 24/7 and that's not an exaggeration. But I think after 25 years it's like you are with your… — Sal Vulcano Copy Share Image
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes,… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the… — Horace Copy Share Image
Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been… — Marc Ostrofsky Copy Share Image
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, among sensible persons, it would seem that a rich man deems that friend a sincere one who does not want… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower,… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
