Quotes About Fortune

There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

Before I played in the NHL I had two surgeries. Definitely I was like, 'Wow, this is not good. I haven't played a game yet and I have two surgeries.' I didn't get another one ever again. I was fortunate.

I've been fortunate to share the ring with great wrestlers of legendary status and those that will fill their boots in the future.

I have a vision for what I want wrestling to be, and I was fortunate not just to have the opportunity to show my talents at the right time, and not just to have the right opponents, and not just to have the knowledge that the front office has faith in me, but also the good fortune not to get hurt in the middle of all this.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

When you're rich you don't write checks.

I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.

I have been fortunate to have worked with immensely talented writers and directors who have had faith in me. There's been very little hard work but a lot of learning. I have learnt from each of my characters, and I think that's rather amazing.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.

It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

Day after day in the season of disaster, it can be hard to recognize a chance in fortune when it comes.

Whimsy is fate, too: just less knowable.

What's the different between a shooting star and a falling house? One which is propitious grants delicious wishes, the other which is vicious squishes witches.

Show pity I beg you... We have today been struck down by fortune But tomorrow it may be your own turn to die.

It was the fault of destiny!

It was all her fortune. It seemed to her very fine thus to throw it away.

Audaces fortuna juvat [« La fortune sourit aux audacieux »].

Frédéric n'aima point cette manière de s'associer, tout de suite, à sa fortune. Son ami témoignait trop de joie pour eux deux, et pas assez pour lui seul.

Everybody can't be rich! No fortune can hold out against waste!

How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed for one to be ruined or saved!

How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!