Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

David Dreman

Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

Edward Kennedy

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Barbara Mertz

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

Jane Smiley

How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.

Baltasar Gracian

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

Baltasar Gracian

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Desiderius Erasmus

Fortune favors the audacious.

Carlos Fuentes

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

Charles de Gaulle

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Belle Boyd

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Tom Golisano

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.

Alan Zemaitis

The thing about it is, Michael Robinson, Matthew Rice and me, you would think that we are fortune-tellers, the way we scripted the season up to this point. We predicted it all.

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.

Benjamin Franklin

No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends

Fred Yoder

This is a big, audacious plan put together by obviously brilliant people. But you missed the boat. We don't need a rail system. We need housing.

Jason Gillespie

They say Shaun's similar to Brett but, at the end of the day, they're wicket-takers. I'd love to go, don't get me wrong, but with Shaun there's a bloke who bowls 150kmh while swinging the ball, and gets audacious reverse-swing. Shaun bowled some of the fastest deliveries I've seen last Sunday.

Richard Doherty

It's very audacious of them. It is bound to increase Apple's market share. The whole blurring of the Mac and the PC is complete. It now raises the bar for manufacturers of not only notebooks, but the living room and desktop PCs.

Pauline Marois

We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.

Mike Bibby

audacious -- it's not walking politically correct lines.

Libba Bray

You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the real world? That's what it felt like when I first read 'Watchmen' - like someone was taking a can opener to my head to make room for Moore's audacious brilliance.

John Doherty

Bob was an inspirational storyteller, an audacious fighter and an unpretentious mystic. He was serious about saving the world while always maintaining a sense of humor.

Erskine Bowles

Up until today, the North Carolina Research Campus has been an audacious idea on the part of David Murdock. Now it will lead to a more prosperous future.

Jules Verne

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.