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Quotes About Fortune

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
~ Harold Russell
I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.
~ Lance Bass
I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
~ Henry Alford
I feel like I've got the best job in the world. I just feel so fortunate to get paid to be a kid and play with my friends. So if it's rough or a little bit hot, you just have to deal with that.
~ Joel Kinnaman
Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
~ Kate Reardon
Hugh Hefner was a trailblazer. He followed his bliss and his bliss lead him to a billion-dollar fortune.
~ Sherlyn Chopra
Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
~ Mo Yan
She said in the way you might wish someone good luck on the lottery.
~ Gillian Flynn
That would be our luck.
~ Gillian Flynn
The Days never won anything. They always said that, marveling, whenever they had a tiny piece of good luck: We never win anything! It was the family motto.
~ Gillian Flynn
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.
~ Glen Cook
Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony.
~ Glen Cook
Comment, Mademoiselle? Vous appellés cela betrügen? Corriger la fortune, l'enchainer sous ses doits, etre sûr de son fait, das nenn die Deutsch betrügen? betrügen! O, was ist die deutsch Sprak für ein arm Sprak! für ein plump Sprak!
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Fortune was not a house full of gold and jade, but something much more.
~ Grace Lin
Bringing fortune to our house! Making Fruitless Mountain bloom! You're always wishing to do impossible things! Stop believing stories and stop wasting your time.
~ Grace Lin
In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness. So Dickens's wife and mistress had to suffer so that dickens could make his novels and his fortune. At least a bank manager's money is not so tainted by egotism. Mine was not a destructive profession. A bank manager doesn't leave a trail of the martyred behind him.
~ Graham Greene
A strong man can make his own luck.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.
~ Gregory David Roberts
He says that strong men make the luck to happen
~ Gregory David Roberts
Khader aveva cercato di spiegarmi che ogni uomo ha la possibilita di cambiare il proprio destino. Avevo sempre pensato che il fatto fosse immutabile: determinato al momento della nascita e fisso come le orbite delle stelle. All'improvviso compresi che la vita e molto piu bella e complessa. La verita e che fortuna e sfortuna non contano, e non importa cio che stai facendo: puoi cambiare completamente la tua vita con un solo pensiero, con un solo gesto d'amore.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fate needs accomplices
~ Gregory David Roberts
Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
~ Gregory Maguire
It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.
~ Ryne Sandberg
I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.
~ Colson Whitehead