Quotes About Fortune

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

rikkaus ilman hyvettä on vaarallista; mutta molempien yhtymisestä seuraa korkein onni

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn't born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

I'm paid to be lucky and that means making your own luck - getting yourself in the right position, in front of the right subject at the right time, and in the right light.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Natura deficit, fortuna mutatur, deus omnia cernit. La naturaleza nos traiciona, la fortuna cambia, un dios mira las cosas desde lo alto.

Un triunfo sólo sienta a los muertos. En vida, siempre hay alguien pronto a reprocharnos nuestras debilidades, como antaño reprochaban a César su calvicie y sus amores. Pero un muerto tiene derecho a esa especie de inauguración funeraria, a esas pocas horas de pompa ruidosa antes de los siglos y los milenios de olvido. La fortuna de un muerto está al abrigo de los reveses; hasta sus derrotas adquieren un esplendor de victoria.

I'd always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around.

Yet with all the advantages over both friends and enemies which I now possessed I could not honestly say I was happy. I knew I could have every possible enjoyment and amusement the world had to offer--I knew I was one of the most envied among men, and yet, as I stood looking out of the window at the persistently falling rain, I was conscious of a bitterness rather than a sweetness in the full cup of fortune.

My friend, I assure you, if you have won a true woman's true love, you have a far greater fortune than your millions--a treasure that none can afford to despise.

Since she seen Fortune head in that big pot Miss Lydia say that room make her feel ill, sick with the thought of boiling human broth. I wonder how she think it make me feel? To dust the hands what use to stroke my breast; to dust the arms what hold me when I cried; to dust where his soft lips were and his chest what curved its warm against my back at night. From the poem Dinah's Lament (15)