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Fortunes Quotes
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad. - Phil Ochs Quotes
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; its merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that weve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Luck is not chance, its toil; fortunes expensive smile is earned. - Emily Dickinson Quotes
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; its ten to one if they hang long together. - Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. - John Ray Quotes
A lot of people approach risk as if its the enemy when its really fortunes accomplice. - Sting Quotes
The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. - Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. - Walt Disney Quotes
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes. - Peter Matthiessen Quotes
Fortunes wheel is ever turning. - Polish Proverb Quotes
Most people know no other way of judging mens worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
She told fortunes for a living. Its a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960s. - Colleen Mccullough Quotes
My submission to you is were fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and wed be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. - Johnny Isakson Quotes
Then all the foreigners started coming over. I dont mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and thats no good for our youngsters coming through. - Paul Gascoigne Quotes
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortunes bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. - John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. - William Ralph Inge Quotes
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. - Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. - Woodrow Wilson Quotes
Delay not; swift the flight of fortunes greatest favours. - Seneca Quotes
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. - Ibrahim Babangida Quotes
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortunes darlings. - Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
President Bush will come here and there will be new \"friends\" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who \"liberated\" them. - Robert Fisk Quotes
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. - Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. - Paul Getty Quotes
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? - James Madison Quotes
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! - John Dryden Quotes
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. - William H Wharton Quotes
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. - Eric S Raymond Quotes
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