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1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors

She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of… — Zadie Smith
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God. — Junot Diaz
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Very slowly, she peeked around the tree trunk. Saw a slim, petite figure, flanked by two very large, very dangerous-looking soldier of fortune types picking… — Cindy Gerard
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.… — Paul Verlaine
Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen… — Daisaku Ikeda
A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the… — Lisa Kleypas
Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me… — Henry David Thoreau
Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot. — Alice Hoffman
Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner. — Alice Hoffman
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction… — Libba Bray
Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. — Charlotte Bronte
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens… — Anne Lamott
I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It… — Jim Rohn
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. — Toni Morrison
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a… — Euripides
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives,… — Thomas Jefferson
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them! — Anne Frank
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems. — Walt Disney
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune. — Roberto Bolano

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