Fortune Quotes
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Apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.
Lester B. Pearson
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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
Akhenaton
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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.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
William Shakespeare
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Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Seneca the Younger
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
Petrarch
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Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.
Raza Jaffrey
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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
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The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast
Rachel Caine
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Idries Shah