Fortune Quotes
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Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far.
Charlotte Bingham -
I don't know the reason for that particular band's fortune or lack of it. But, in our case, I think it's the music that we make and made is timeless. It may remind you of the time you heard it.
Doug Fieger The Knack
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Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.
William Shakespeare -
Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.
Benvenuto Cellini -
It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.
Chapman Cohen -
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Arthur Helps -
Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
William Shakespeare -
It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.
Al-Masudi
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I've had some good fortune in this building. It's always challenging. The two sides upstairs and downstairs play differently. There's a lot of obstacles here and a lot of things that keep you on your toes. But the fans here are great and I think it's our most prestigious tournament.
Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse -
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen -
True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities; for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.
Sallust -
None can hold fortune still and make it last.
Euripides -
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond Queneau
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Fortune is either with you or it's not.
Tom Araya Slayer -
Behind every fortune there is a crime.
Honore de Balzac -
I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.
Robert Walpole -
The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Sophocles -
My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.
Reinhard Selten
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A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.
William Shakespeare -
To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.
Woody Allen -
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
Seneca the Younger -
The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune. The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.
Adolf Hitler