Quotes About Fortune

There are cities in which to spend a fortune and cities in which to make one; only in the rare great city can one accomplish both.

The chances that lose in the lottery of being are invisible

Barry was born clever enough at gaining a fortune, but incapable of keeping one. For the qualities and energies which lead a man to achieve the first are often the very cause of his ruin in the latter case.

Legitimate brothers were all too likely to go to war over an inheritance. Bastards had to hitch their fortunes to the king and his designated heir, and many kings produced them with abandon.

There is no such thing as luck. If you think you're lucky and that'll carry you through, you're living on borrowed time.

Why not just try to settle in, take your place, however undeserved, among the fortunate? Why not trust that almost everyone, even in his own house, is a troubled guest?

To a certain extent," he explained, "a man must merely believe in his luck and figure that a certain amount of good fortune will bless us when the critical day arrives."30 Throughout the war Eisenhower trusted in his luck along with his preparations, and it never failed him.

It's like winning a lottery. Although the odds are astronomical, most weeks, someone hits the jackpot.

The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical view about the pathways of life and the nature of history. ... May our poor and improbable species find joy in its new-found fragility and good fortune! Wouldn't anyone with the slightest sense of adventure, or the most weakly flickering respect for intellect, gladly exchange the old cosmic comfort for a look at something so weird and wonderful - yet so real - as *Opabinia*?

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Hodges remembers an old saying: even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass.

Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.

even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass.

God grant me the SERENITY to accept what I cannot change, the TENACITY to change what I may, and the GOOD LUCK not to fuck up too often.

surely they had passed the worst. All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes.

Because sometimes longshots came in. Both for good and for ill.

Good luck, good will, good fortune, not ill.

The dead souls will say, "how lucky are the living souls.

Unto those who have, it shall, uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not, it shall, uncannily, be taken away.

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

So doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? You purchase a ticket when you're born. And it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. It's all just luck.