Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 2950.

  • Oscar Wilde Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles F. Kettering Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Beth Ditto Products are a must - full stop. I'm sorry to say it, but that bob won't look so sleek on its own - you need a little help. It doesn't have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thornton T. Munger Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Eva Figes Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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  • George Eliot Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Sir Thomas Malory Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Charles A. Stoddard Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
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  • Albert Ellis Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Peggy Noonan Read good, big important things.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • William Faulkner Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Carol Berg Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Mortimer J. Adler Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • Babe Ruth Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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