Fortune Quotes - Page 25

• No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.

  Amadeo Giannini

  Life, Men

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• Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

  Zane Grey

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Fishing Virgin Sea”, p.154, Derrydale Press

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• If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Thinking, Practice

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• Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly afforded by memoirs of the sons of literature. They are entangled by contracts which they know not how to fulfill, and obliged to write on subjects which they do not understand. Every publication is a new period of time, from which some increase or declension of fame is to be reckoned. The gradations of a hero's life are from battle to battle, and of an author's from book to book.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Hero, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.406

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• It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the existing fortunes appear as privileges for which there is no justification. Policy is then certain to aim at taking these fortunes out of private hands, either by the slow process of heavy taxation of inheritance or by the quicker one of outright confiscation. A system based on private property and control of the means of production presupposes that such property and control can be acquired by any successful man.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Successful, Men

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• The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.

  Herbert Hoover

  Wisdom, Party, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

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• Merv Griffin, who developed Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, had a great line once. I used to personally answer all the mail that came in to Jeopardy! whether it was favorable or unfavorable, and Merv said, You know how I handle the nasty mail? I said no. He just grabbed it and folded it up and crunched it up and threw it in the wastebasket. He said, I don't bother with it.

  Alex Trebek

  Answers, Lines, Mail

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• You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Giving, Wife

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• Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Book, Men, Years

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• Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Pain, Winning, Games

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• Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Growing Up, Character

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• We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

  Erica Jong

  Children, Men, News

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Gay marriage, I am so against it because if all my gay friends get married, it will cost me a fortune in gifts.

  Joan Rivers

  Gay, Cost, Married

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• 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

  Memorable, Order, Names

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• Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  People, Blind

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• The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them head-on and establish a solid self that nothing can sway. Hardships forge and polish our lives, so that eventually they shine with brilliant fortune and benefit. If left in its raw, unpolished form, even the most magnificent gem will not sparkle. The same applies to our lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Running, Self, Shining

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• Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

  Horace

  Adversity, Genius, Good Fortune

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• The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?

  Daniel Gilbert

  Fate, Hands, Decision

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• The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Dream, Intuition, Superstitions

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• I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Games, Wheels, Shows

  "Actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani answers our 11 questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Magic, Bullets, Chance

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• I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

  Joanna Garcia

  Mistake, Share, Made

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

  Daniel Schorr

  Military, Agency, Government

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• One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Success, Men, Quality

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.159

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• Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Bears, Baseness

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