Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“I will despise whatever lies in the domain of Fortune, but if a choice is offered, I will choose the better half.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“People come to New York to find fame and fortune. I found both, so I left.” — Nancy Seligsohn Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It was not. We… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've always been lucky enough to have made the right decisions, if I can say that. I've always felt that I've had… — Olivier Giroud Copy Share Image
“Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living.… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t she realize that the life she is living is an accident of fortune? Doesn’t she know that she is an exception… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
“What I “discovered” was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex… — Jerry Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
