Quotes About Fortune

Oh yea FORTUNATELY the girls are a lot braver then the guys, they flirt all the time.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

You might be a redneck if you refer to the time you won a free case of oil as the day my ship came in.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

The first time you succeed it is chance

Kindness is fate's currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.

Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

The 2 prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.As the tag line of my favorite dirty joke would have it: "Keep your hat on. We could wind up miles from here.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

La vida nos es insoportable a todos a veces —dijo ella—. No creo que haya nadie lo bastante afortunado como para escapar de toda la oscuridad que ofrece.

Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and they think they hit a home run.

This is the lesson of age—events pass, things change, trauma fades, good fortune rises, fades, rises again but different.

Riddle traveled a lot in his twenties and recalls being hit by a realization. So much of people's lives—their opportunities, their health and longevity—comes down to where they were born. "It's so random," he says.

My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing

Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on...

class does not make people smarter; it produces a small group of people who are deluded about the sources of their good fortune and a large group of people who are deceived about the sources of their misfortune.

Luck only holds out for so long