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Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of energy resources.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.
Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn.
I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.
We want Angolans who have fortunes abroad to be the first to invest in the country, thus demonstrating that they are true patriots.
Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.
If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.
The country needs leadership driven by the dictates of national security, not the ebb and flow of political fortunes.
Just as war is waged with the blood of others, fortunes are made with other people's money.
I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.
Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.
So they, who climb to wealth, forget
The friends in darker fortunes tried.
I copied them--but I regret
That I should ape the ways of pride.
The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.
However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.
Thanks to the magic word 'success,' which changes anyone's fortunes for good, I am not the same Sudha as I was seven years ago.
Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
I'd be somewhat disinclined to be responsible for the fortunes of a franchise that uses a sitcom as their philosophical north star.
They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.
Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state
Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."
There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.
One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?
