Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. — Boethius Copy Share Image
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability. — Jean Baudrillard 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
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions,… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
We call upon priesthood bearers to store sufficient so that you and your family can weather the vicissitudes of life. Please see… — Keith B. McMullin Copy Share Image
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water,… — Lady Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—a class… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such… — Baker Brownell Copy Share Image
Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
From its origin to the present hour, in all its vicissitudes, Masonry has been the steady unwearing friend of man. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Since our region is endowed with a lot of natural resources, including reasonable supplies of fresh water, we need and we can… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
