Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niccolo Machiavelli

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

Tom Brady

I think it was great fortune that night. I'm glad the referees got the play right,

Walt Whitman

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

William Graham Sumner

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

Winifred Holtby

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

Robert Buchanan

Clearly, Wal-Mart's fortunes over the next 12 to 18 months hinge on the quality of the job that Eduardo Castro- Wright does. He is the man on the hot seat.

Frank Darabont

It's been a great run of good fortune for me as a writer.

Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Quintilian

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Marcus Aurelius

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

David Barnes

Kevin would have to wait at least six months to get a British title shot but if he beats Okine it will fast-track him to a British title shot sooner and jump him up to 15th place in the world title ratings.

Victor Perez

It beats the heck out of what was there.

Paul Verlaine

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.

Jim Rash

I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well.

Robert Krulwich

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

William McCarthy

In the past, we might have had four beats overlapping a single neighborhood. Now we have the technology to go beyond that,

Andy Coulson

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Tony Cooper

It's not as nice as a bed, but it certainly beats the cold weather outside.

Carl Willis

Everyone says good pitching beats good hitting. That's what we're trying to do.