Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 2321 till 2340 of 2950.

  • John Ruskin The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • B. D. Wong The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Penn The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Bainbridge Colby The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Wendell L. Willkie The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • Samuel Butler The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Al Franken The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • E. B. White The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Carroll Quigley The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Gerard De Nerval The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Caskie Stinnett The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
    Out of the Red (1960)
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  • George Mikes The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.
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  • Ann Landers The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bob Lemon The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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