Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. — Plautus Copy Share Image
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is the only advanced industrial democracy where people can get sick and languish because they can't afford care. Or where people… — Glenn Loury Copy Share Image
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal,… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Hidden in all good fortune is misfortune. And in all misfortune is good fortune. It's never going to stay the same as… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
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