Quotes with fortune-telling

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  • Benjamin Franklin He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Baltasar Gracian He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Boethius He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad: his countenance unconquered he can shew.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Walt Whitman Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Angela Merkel Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Henry Fielding His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Buddha His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ovid I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • A. R. Ammons I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Dolly Parton I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I've made a fortune with 'em.
    Dolly Parton
    American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Anna Held I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Adele I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Little Richard I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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  • John D. Rockefeller I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Maxine Waters I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
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  • Lord George Byron I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Gordon Byron I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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