Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: I'm not beautiful. I mean, I'm a perfectly normal-looking Jewish guy. My face has never been my fortune, nor… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“Luck is a fickle girl who doesn’t like lingering in any one place; she strokes your hair back from your brow, kisses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial. The young people I meet want more freedom - to start firms,… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin… — D.B.C. Pierre 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
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to… — Anthony Trollope 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
