William Somervile Quotes
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
Laura San Giacomo -
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.
Cameron Mackintosh -
If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
Friedrich Schiller -
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Little Richard -
A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
Ben Harper
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
Andriy Shevchenko -
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.
Alfred Russel Wallace -
Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
Edwin Booth -
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.
Arthur Rubinstein -
I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.
Curtis Hanson -
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
Tacitus
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
James Boswell -
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
Aristotle -
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
Sophocles -
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
Euripides -
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
Socrates -
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Francis Bacon
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
Charlotte Bronte -
Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.
Andy Griffith -
I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
Uma Thurman -
I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
Hector Elizondo -
Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone.
William Somervile