Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson
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Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON Luck is not chance - It's Toil - Fortune's expensive smile Is earned
EMILY DICKINSON Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
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BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
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WILL OLDHAM I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
EDIE CAMPBELL When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
DARON MALAKIAN I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.
JOHN GREEN Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
HAROLD BLOOM I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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ISAIAH WASHINGTON I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'
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MALLORY ORTBERG The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
JOHN RUSKIN It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.
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JAMES MCNERNEY Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
CHANDRA WILSON You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's p...
MAURICE SENDAK I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, sm...
KATE BERNHEIMER I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It...
HOWARD SCHULTZ I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are co...
EDDIE HUANG I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running b...
A. R. RAHMAN Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
JOHN RAY Your life is expensive to those who loves you, so take care of your life.
NEHA KOTHARI Why is love so expensive even when it exists everywhere?
NEHA KOTHARI You have taken the step to cross the road, cross it. One step back can bring you an accident.
NEHA KOTHARI All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. ...
SUSAN CHOI It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
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MARCUS SAMUELSSON If the shoe fits, it's too expensive.
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ELLA WOODWARD If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.
ZIGGY MARLEY In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
JACK KEVORKIAN It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of an...
JOHN STUART MILL Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's pa...
JOHN TESH As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yea...
MARGO JEFFERSON I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
D. B. SWEENEY It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
JEAN NIDETCH The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will c...
EMILY DICKINSON open me carefully
EMILY DICKINSON When you come home, darling, I shant have your letters, but I shall have yourself, which is more-- o...
EMILY DICKINSON I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day ...
EMILY DICKINSON I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.
JEFF BRIDGES I love vintage, but it's so expensive now.
ALEXANDRA ROACH Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.
BERNIE SANDERS Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do ...
MARTIN O'MALLEY It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.
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KEVIN PLANK We should have hope because we've earned it. We've worked for it! It's ours.
MAXINE WATERS Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but ...
J. CARTER BROWN America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.
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GUSTAVO DUDAMEL I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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DON ROFF Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
DR. SEUSS It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not a...
MICHAEL SCHIAVO Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
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STEPHEN COVEY Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
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MICHAEL DIRDA America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.
CHRISTY TURLINGTON Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.
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Is aristocrac...
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So clear...
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EMILY DICKINSON I felt it shelter to speak to you.
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Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
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...
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You heard no noise
The ruin was within.
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EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
EMILY DICKINSON That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet
EMILY DICKINSON Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpass...
EMILY DICKINSON We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -...
EMILY DICKINSON How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to...
EMILY DICKINSON When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Dis...
EMILY DICKINSON Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity
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