Quotes with fortune-telling

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• Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

  Beau Willimon
  American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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• Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

  Arnold H. Glasgow
  American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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• Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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• Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

  Helen Rowland
  American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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• Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

  Anthony Hope
  English writer (1863 - 1933)
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• Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.

  Bliss Carman
  Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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• That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? 'Tell me a story.' That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

  Middlesex (2003) 197

  Carol Shields
  American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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• The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25.

  Carol Loomis
  American financial journalist (1929 - )
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• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

  Tacitus
  Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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• The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

  Malcolm Bradbury
  English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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• The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

  Cat Stevens
  British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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• The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

  Mrs. Humphrey Ward
   
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• The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

  John Mortimer
  English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

  William Blake
  English poet (1757 - 1827)
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• The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

  Thomas à Kempis
  Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• characteristics
• second-nature
• misunderstand
• significantly
• compassionate
• story-telling

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