Quotes About Fortune

Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany. But I knew I was lucky before that, so it's not like I suddenly realised how lucky I am.

It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family.

I could always say I wished I had a better film career... but overall, I've been one of the lucky ones.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.

I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.

I've been fortunate enough to have football lead me all over the world... If there's one constant I've witnessed throughout the journey, it has to be passion.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.

If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that not everything had yet been gleaned in the field of general thermodynamic radiation theory.

Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

I'm the luckiest broad on two feet, I'll tell you that. They say once a woman passes 40 she doesn't get any good parts, so I'm blessed.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

I feel that things happen for a reason and open up new opportunities.

When I'm happy good things happen.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.