Fortunes Quotations

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

Many rich people in China made their fortunes by damaging natural resources and building corrupt relations with the government.

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

More fortunes are made by energy than prudence

Politically he has to improve his fortunes or his party might well take it on the chin come next November.

Leaving aside the exceptional nature of the 1930s, we can see a peak in the film industry's fortunes in the 1960s and 1970s, and a relative decline since then,

She put her husband in business as a barber. Within a year, that $4 had changed the entire fortunes of this family.

So I am excited, yes. The emotions and your fortunes just swing wildly in this sport.

Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.

I am ready to take the responsibility of (leading) the party in the state if the high command asks. If the Central leadership gives me the responsibility, I can turn around the fortunes of the party in the state.

Fortunes will be made picking the carcass of the old energy industry and tapping into the technology and services that will typify the new energy industry.

If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.

Going forward, DaimlerChrysler's fortunes will be driven by Mercedes Benz.

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes of money

He is a great batsman and capable of changing the fortunes of a game at any time.

People are sitting on fortunes and they don't even know it, ... The face amount has nothing to do with the actual value of the bond.

Jason is going to be extremely important to our fortunes in the short, medium and hopefully long-term,

We haven't gotten any bounces yet. I imagine sooner or later our fortunes are going to change and we're going to get some luck our way but there are only three games left.

We made fortunes off of leverage (before going public), and you're not going to make fortunes in the public market off of leverage.

That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise,

That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise. It was huge, ... He sent a message to the rest of the NFL that Green Bay was a great place to play.

That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise. It was huge. He sent a message to the rest of the NFL that Green Bay was a great place to play.

There are fortunes being made by turning fans into victims and all it starts by creating that frenzy known as celebrity worship.

There are fortunes to be made from the dark side of the internet, and spammers who are finding it harder to sell goods via bulk email are likely to turn to other criminal activities, ... What the chart reveals is that spammers and virus writers can exploit unprotected computers anywhere in the world to send out their unwanted messages - everyone has a part to play in the fight against spam.

There are fortunes to be made from the dark side of the Internet and spammers who are finding it harder to sell goods via bulk email are likely to turn to other criminal activities,

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

The deal is virtually done and it's not going to be just revolutionary for the NHL, it will be a new chapter in collective bargaining agreements for all sports because it will most closely tie together the fortunes of the owners and the players.

We're still winless in conference play but we've played a number of games that could have gone either way. I feel our fortunes are going to change." ()

There is a common theme that economic fortunes look brighter in Japan and continental Europe than they do in the U.S., ... Even though higher rates should help the currency, they haven't because most people are seeing that as the Fed's move to slow the economy and reduce growth.

We sailed pretty solidly all week and today as well. Fortunes are won and lost pretty easily, race-to-race in this game. The guys all stayed level and we approached each race as it came.

Throughout Philippine history, it's the immigrants who built fortunes and, in the process, helped build Philippine economy.

The government's approach to demobilization allows paramilitary commanders to put on a show of disarming some troops, ... But the government has not truly attempted to dismantle their mafia-like networks, seize their illegally acquired fortunes or ensure a full cessation of abuses.

The temptation to defeat the government will be overwhelming. They know that when this issue fades, their fortunes fade with it, so sooner is better than later.

The opportunities for better economic fortunes lie elsewhere. Basically, this area has a lack of jobs that will pay enough for the young people in our area to support families and purchase homes.

On this Veterans Day, the president had the opportunity to honor our troops, both those who have served and those who are currently serving, by laying out a clear strategy for success in the war in Iraq. Instead, the president resorted to his old playbook of discredited rhetoric about the War on Terror and political attacks as his own political fortunes and credibility diminish,

Despite the announced closure of the two Tyson plants, Nebraska's confidence index stood at a regional high of 70.2. Certainly, the rising fortunes of the state's ethanol and renewable energy industry have buoyed businesses in this industry or firms with close ties to this industry.

So they, who climb to wealth, forgetThe friends in darker fortunes tried.I copied them -- but I regretThat I should ape the ways of pride.

As Clinton's fortunes have gone up and down, the dollar has moved in the same direction.

this administration intends to 'stay the course' and continue putting their political fortunes ahead of what this country needs -- a plan for success.

This is not a time for timidity, ... Nor is it a time to fear reaching too high. This year, the year of the U.N. special summit as well as the year of Britain's G8 presidency in Gleneagles, is our chance to help reverse the fortunes of a continent, and it is our opportunity to help transform the lives of millions.

If little labor, little are our gains; man's fortunes are according to his pains

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

Stocks remain richly valued as a multiple of earnings. If earnings do not accurately represent the fortunes of Corporate America, then stock prices may be even more expensive than the statistics suggest.

Clearly people have their own fortunes to make.

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.

These two players made outstanding all-round contributions to the fortunes of their sides so it is wholly appropriate that they should both receive the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy,

Sooner or later he must decide what sort of role he intends to play. He seems to reflect the shallowness of a culture that has brought West Indies cricket to its knees. More is needed from the side's senior opening batsman, a member of the World XI no less, than floated off breaks, blocks and lifted drives. No one in this touring party is better placed than the endlessly languid Jamaican to provide the inspiration that alone can turn its fortunes around.

You've got to do better than that. If you are going to change the fortunes of your ball club, you've got to be able to beat these guys.

The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

The centre-left will win and revive the fortunes of an Italy thrust to its knees by the complete failure of the 'miracle' announced by Berlusconi five years ago.

A company's fortunes generally don't change over a month's time or so, ... We want them to be able to execute their business strategy, and we give them at least three to five years.

It's a hard period we're going through at the moment. Now it's a matter of forgetting this, we have to learn from it and we must do things better. Football is a strange game and your fortunes can turn very quickly.

As a company's fortunes fare, so do the CEOs and other top managers, and that is the way it should work in the business world,

We're going to win on the defense side, because unlike the poor people who were afraid to go to trial, afraid of consequences for family, fortunes or anything else, we're here to stay.

It was a year of awakening for the new investor on Wall Street and it was a very quick and sudden reversal of fortunes for many. We ran the emotional gamut from total irrational thinking and perception to reality and capitulation. Last year's market did reinforce the notion that abuses and excesses are eventually corrected and eventually reach a level of overreaction -- and that's how the year ended.

I don't think there's anything in the landscape which suggests a wholesale change in fortunes here. The expenses related to programming investments are not really one-time issues. They're going to be with us a little bit.

The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind of men has God ever committed Himself in this world.

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time

There is in the Congress a collection of the greatest men upon this continent in point of abilities, virtues, and fortunes

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes