Quotes About Fortune

I just got a fortune cookie that says Turn off your computer and read a book which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!

Dr. F picked a few up and held them under the dim reading light beside him. "The Major Arcana. Impressive.

The sign seemed like her fortune, her horoscope, her Magic 8 Ball answer.

Pensa sem cessar que és homem, isto é, o vivente mais sujeito aos caprichos da sorte.

Winston Churchill (him again!) once said words to the effect that everyone gets the chance to make their fortune once, but not everybody takes it.

You've been lucky so far, right? […] So keep on being lucky.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. —Nathan Mayer Rothschild

Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every day. —Benjamin Franklin

Quien se conforme con ganancias seguras, difícilmente llegará a amasar grandes riquezas; quien lo fíe todo a grandes aventuras, frecuentemente quebrará y caerá en la pobreza: es bueno, por lo tanto, proteger las aventuras con los frutos de la certidumbre para que puedan soportar las pérdidas. Sir Francis Bacon

Cuando dejas todo al albur del azar, de repente tu suerte se agota. Pat Riley, entrenador de baloncesto

Shit!" Evelgold added. "What?" Hook asked, alarmed. "I just stepped in some." "That's supposed to bring you luck," Hook said. "Then I'd better dance in the goddam stuff.

Wyrd biõ ful ãræd," I said. Fate is fate. It cannot be changed or cheated.

The wheel of fortune that had once raised her so high had taken her into the utter depths.

Wyrd bið ful aræd.

Wyrd bið ful ?ræd.

Wyrd bið ful ?ræd. The

To gain everything, a man must risk everything.

Wyrd bi ful aræd, we say, and it is true. Fate is inexorable.

Wyrd bi ful aræd, fate is unstoppable.

Wyrd bið ful ãræd," I told Finan. Fate is inexorable.

Wyrd bi ful aræd.

He died without cutting his nails," she said accusingly, as if I was responsible for that ill luck, and it was bad fortune indeed because now the grim things of the underworld would use Ivar's nails to build the ship that would bring chaos at the world's end.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.