Quotes About Fortune

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?

I've been blessed to be at the right place at the right time.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky.

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round— more than a body could tell what to do with.

A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, "Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud." "I have a better idea," suggested Twain. "Why don't you stay right at home in Boston and keep them?

And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth.

Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys.

In a way, it was destiny.

Because deep down you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come.

Just bad luck. That's what you say. Of no consequence. That's what you make yourself believe- because deep down, you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come.

Tal como Liesel descubrió, un buen ladrón necesita muchas cosas. Sigilo. Audacia. Resolución. Sin embargo, mucho más importante que todo lo demás era un último requisito: la suerte.

and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time.

MAN DOES WHAT HE CAN, CHANCE DOES WHAT IT WILL.

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be build on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

Frattanto, possiamo ringraziare la nostra buona stella che, per qualche ora, ci ha sottratto alla insopportabile fatica dell'ozio.»

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.