Quotes About Fortune

Got a ship with women and cats aboard, you'll have the finest luck you can hope

Most men do nothing to deserve what the gods throw their way

He should have died a few seconds later. It was Jean, as usual, who had other plans.

The morning was fresh from the rain. The smell of the tide pools was strong. Sweet odors came from the wild grasses in the ravines and from the sand plants on the dunes. I sang as I went down the trail to the beach and along the beach to the sandspit. I felt that the day was an omen of good fortune. It was a good day to begin my new home.

Six turns." A more superstitious man might have taken that for a bad omen. Tanner only considered himself half-superstitious. He didn't believe in the good ones.

Wyrd oft nered unfaegne, eorl, ponne his ellen deah. Often, for undaunted courage, fate spares the man it has not already marked.

No windfall or good fortune comes to mortals That isn't paid for in the coin of pain.

Whoever has been spared the worst is lucky.

It was a fortunate wind That blew me here. I leave Half-ready to believe That a crippled trust might walk And the half-true rhyme is love. - From "Voices from Lemnos

Now it's high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What's left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.