#fortune

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#soul #death

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#anyway #appearances #around #book #books

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune. ↗

— Olivia Munn

#basically #fortune #good #good fortune #had

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#am #anybody #band #becoming #during

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#depression #during #fortune #good #good fortune

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#benefited #build #development #directly #farmers

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's. ↗

— Rob Portman

#about #all americans #businesses #corporations #fortune

I believe in America. America's made my fortune. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#believe #fortune #i #i believe #i believe in

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. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#early #fortunes #grounds #hacker #had

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#fortune #never #sure #upon #waits