Quotes About Fortuna

The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.

What his humanism says to us is that the human subject should stand apart from his or her circumstances emotionally and intellectually, even as he or she experiences the flux of Fortuna—the Chaucerian "job" writ large in a life—and the mesmerizing power of the moment. Only in this can we find our voice.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

On the whole, April ritualised femininity, but with somewhat plebeian connotations (Ceres, Flora, the Erycine Venus and probably Virile Fortuna as well).

The presence of lararia in some bedrooms gives reason to suppose that before going to sleep prayers were again offered to the gods. An idol of Fortuna (SHA, AP, 12, 5; S, 23, 5) watched over the sleep of the emperors. In his bedroom, Augustus also had a portrait of his great-grandson as Cupid, on which he would bestow a kiss each night when he entered (Suet., Cal., 7).

Fortuna Lacalle was an imbecile who gave himself the airs of an eminent jurist, but over and above his self-regard, he was dyspeptically envious of judges who actually deserved their high office.

So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within the larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.

A Fortuna, porém, raramente interfere com o sábio; seus maiores e mais elevados interesses têm sido, são e serão dirigidos pela razão ao longo de sua vida.

Tuvisteis buena travesía? —Execrable, señora, horrorosa —respondió Roberto—. Una tempestad como para echar tripas y alma. Creí llegada mi última hora, hasta el extremo de que decidí confesar mis pecados a Dios. Por fortuna, eran tantos, que al tiempo de decir la mitad ya llegábamos a destino. Guardo suficientes para el regreso.

Fortuna is tricky, he's a southpaw like me. But you've got to adapt to whatever is in front of you.

No estoy segura de que te des cuenta cuán ridículo suenas. Pero por fortuna para ti, Annabelle Miller está aquí y en el caso, y no va a dejar que pases ni un minuto más sin conocer la perfección que es el éxtasis de chocolate.

The only article Lady Fortuna has no control over is your behavior. Good luck.

Isabella had spent her whole life chasing the capricious goddess Fortuna: what we call Chance or Luck. She held the Humanist belief that the vicissitudes of Chance could be managed-if not entirely, then to a greater extent than if she succeeded them, the result would be Virtú. In some senses this encapsulated the meaning of the Renaissance.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. Ignatius was about to say this to himself; then he remembered that he went to the movies almost every night, no matter which way Fortuna was spinning.

Fortuna wished to make amends. Somehow she had summoned and flushed Myrna minx from a subway tube, from some picket line, from the pungent bed of some Eurasian existentialist, from the hands of some epileptic Negro Buddhist, from the verbose midst of a group therapy session.