Quotes with fortune-telling

Quotes 121 till 140 of 325.

  • Hermann Hesse I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Virgil I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Anita Hill I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Plautus I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Barbara Rosenblat I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Bruce Campbell I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • Bill Allred I'm telling you, back in those Wendover days, it wasn't that hard to get it out of me.
    Radio From Hell (August 31, 2006)
    Bill Allred
    American musician (1936 - )
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  • Horace If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Ben Horowitz If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
    Campaign statement in Fresno, California (10 September 1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bodhidharma If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Buddy Hackett If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Brendan Fraser If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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