Quotes About Fortune

human beings traditionally have great trouble in coping with the concept of random chance. People tend on the whole to want to assign occurrences of remarkable good or bad luck to agency, either human or superhuman. It is important to emphasize, however, that malevolent humans have been only one kind of agent to whom such causation has been attributed: the others include deities, non-human spirits that inhabit the terrestrial world, or the spirits of dead human ancestors.

He was rich, that she knew. The rich aren't difficult to find, she thought, they live in big wika-iganan.

The secrets of Newport, Clea thought. The way money and power could buy a way out of any trouble and into someone else's fortune. All that was really necessary was luck and a complete lack of conscience.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

Today, I counted the money I had earned all these years from my pen. It was quite a great deal of fortunes. Unfortunately, money does not buy happiness.

Fate, fortune, chance: all snares of life. You want to be, eh? There's this catch: in abstract, you cannot just be. The being must be trapped in a form, and for some time it has to stay in it, here or there, this way or that. And everything, as long as it lasts, bears the penalty of its form, the penalty of being this way and no longer being able to be otherwise.

because he who has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death

Cancer isn't the worst thing that can happen to a person. And neither is dying young. Taking life for granted, living badly-- these things seem far worse to me. In many ways- ways that count- I'm the luckiest girl in the world.

He can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.

Pay attention to fate, Mrs. Osgood. It will always have the last word.

Recusa ser minha mulher? - Essa seria a minha felicidade; mas quisera sê-lo com honra. - Que mais honra? - Um casamento clandestino não nos ficaria bem. Se ambos fôssemos pobres ou ricos, sim; mas a desigualdade das nossas fortunas... - Oh! não faças essa consideração. - É essencial.

It occurred to me that tight boots are one of Earth's great good fortunes because, by pinching our feet, they then afford us the pleasure of taking them off.

Then I pondered the fact that tight boots are one of the best bits of good fortune on earth, because by making one's feet hurt they give occasion to the pleasure of taking them off. Punish your feet, wretch, then unpunish them and there you have cheap happiness, at the mercy of shoemakers and worthy of Epicurus.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

Fortune is an impetuous thing that tends to favor the audacious

Do you know how lucky you are?" She smiled rather wryly. "Not most of the time.

Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities

but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Outliers are those who have been given opportunities — and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

Dis am life; some go up and some go down.

Outliers are those who have been given opportunities — and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them. For

If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I had.