Quotes About Fortune

My mother says, "It's not brains or good looks that a person needs, it's luck.

Who says you need luck to be lucky?" my mother answered, looking at me. Search me what that means.

How, indeed, could the myth of Cinderella not keep all its validity? Everything still encourages the young girl to expect fortune and happiness from some Prince Charming rather than to attempt by herself their difficult and uncertain conquest.

world. I love her for being so happy, Carol brooded. I ought to be that way. I worship the baby, but the housework——Oh, I suppose I'm fortunate; so much better off than farm-women on a new clearing, or people in a slum. It

The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt

My aunt grows special rhubarb in dark sheds. They keep it dark and warm all winter and harvest it by candlelight and it's the best stuff. She sells it for a fortune, btw.

Plus, you know, the buffet really is excellent. And my appetite has greatly recovered after a few cups of coffee. In fact, I've decided to switch from the 5:2 diet to the "get the most from your buffet because it's costing you a fortune" diet.

Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

Nothing great enters the life of mortals without a curse.

Look and learn all citizens of Thebes. This is Oedipus. He, who read the famous riddle, and we hailed chief of men, All envied his power, glory, and good fortune. Now upon his head the sea of disaster crashes down. Mortality is man's burden. Keep your eyes fixed on your last day. Call no man happy until he reaches it, and finds rest from suffering.

Like a star his envied fortune mounted beaming far and wide: Now he sinks in seas of anguish, whelmed beneath a raging tide.

Your great good fortune, true, it was your ruin.

What should a man fear? It's all chance, chance rules our lives.

I, I count myself the son of Chance, the great goddess, giver of all good things— I'll never see myself disgraced.

Y ¿qué podría temer un hombre para quien los imperativos de la fortuna son los que le pueden dominar, y no existe previsión clara de nada? Lo más seguro es vivir al azar, según cada uno pueda.

I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me. Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you. Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever the please. Antigone to Theben's king Creon

Today I have a great life. I have three kids and a beautiful wife. I play golf every day. I give to charities. I'm in a lucky position.

If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.

I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.