Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 2841 till 2860 of 2950.

  • Henry Miller You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Springsteen You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Bob Seger You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bryan Robson You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Philip Roth You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Collier You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Mark Victor Hansen You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
    Mark Victor Hansen
    American motivational speaker and author (1948 - )
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  • Paul Theroux You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you're grateful.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Bill Bryson You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Thomas J. Watson You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • James Baker You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.
    James Baker
    American attorney and political figure (1930 - )
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  • Cab Calloway You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Bob Riley You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Larry Mcmurtry You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Carole Bouquet You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Bryan Callen You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go home. And I kind of like that. If you're really good, and you're the best guy in the room that day, you get the job.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Arsenio Hall You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!
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