Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 1361 till 1380 of 2950.

  • Plato Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Beau Willimon Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bill Budge It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Campbell Brown It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Henry Miller It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Arthur Helps It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Anthony Trollope It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Gerard De Nerval It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Mark Twain It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Konrad Lorenz It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
    My early life (1930)
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Don Herold It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • William Shakespeare It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Cyril Connolly It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Augustus Hare It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Jane Austen It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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