Winifred Holtby Quotes
If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
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One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.
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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
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The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
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To me it was just incomprehensible... I have never been in trouble before... I will go miles away to avoid confrontation. I really don't like it,
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If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
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To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.
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Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
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Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.
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I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.
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I've always wanted to create shoes that were positive and happy.
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
