Fortune Quotes - Page 24

• The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Home, Past, Compliments You

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.

  Walter Wykes

  Vegas, Oddities, Cities

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• I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant of their causes. But those things which are for the profit of men -- for the turning away of evil events, for the destroying of sorceries, for the curing of diseases, for the exterminating of phantasms, for the preserving of life, honor, or fortune -- may be done without offense to God or injury to religion, because they are, as profitable, so necessary.

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

  Men, Evil, Ignorant

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• Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Future Happiness, Daily Problems, Cherish

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.59, Tharpa Publications US

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• As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.

  Kelly Link

  Light, Hair, Doors

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• Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

  Bentley Little

  Hope, Men, Wife

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• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

  P. N. Elrod

  Lightning, Fame, Strikes

  P. N. Elrod (2011). “The Vampire Files, Volume Three”, p.244, Penguin

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• Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.

  John Carroll

  Hero, Winning, Boys

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• Character is itself a fortune.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.276

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• Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Differences, Justice, Half

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• For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  May, Months, Bed

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• Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!

  Benjamin

  Spring, Past, Play

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• Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Kings, Men, Good Man

  "On Self-Sufficiency". Book by Teles of Megara, fragment 2,

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• From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.

  Maurice Cowling

  War, Fighting, Views

  Maurice Cowling (1990). “Mill and Liberalism”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.

  Jerry Goldsmith

  Wise, Sick, Alex

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• Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

  Mark Kingwell

  Ambition, Fool

  Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.77, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.

  Indro Montanelli

  Law, Faithful, Church

  "Non vince la scienza" by Umberto Veronesi, www.repubblica.it. November 14, 2008.

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• All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

  Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

  Secret, Vices, Avarice

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• I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the fortune, and the fame. That Means I'll end up burning in hell scorching in flames. Satan'll be in to see me later to see if I'm interested in being partners. Devil worshippin', Satan music.

  Eminem

  Mean, Flames, Soul

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• Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fate, Dark, Hands

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• In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

  John Marshall

  Rights, Government, Citizens

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• At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Sight, Independence, Dawn

  Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). “Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951”

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• A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.

  Warren Buffett

  Needs, World, Wonderful

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• Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life.

  Joseph Murphy

  Believe, Blessing, Divine Guidance

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2009). “Putting the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Work: Reach New Levels of Career Success Using the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.6, Penguin

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• ...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Want, Enjoy

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