Quotes About Fortune

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation, they pass it on. its the secret ingredient the foundationfor a salesman's success. lie well and you make a fortune every day. your wife purrs like a kitten, and your children ealk tall with pride.

It would appear that those who win your love are greatly unfortunate. Do not let it trouble you, said Azhrarn. The misfortune is not yours.

Cyrion, one has to suppose, is one who naturally attracts bizarre, uncanny events, as some persons attract misfortune.

Leopardo was so tickled by this fiendish bit of fortune, he did not know what to do with it.

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more fortunate than the million people on the planet who will not survive this week. If you can attend a religious meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature

Te pido que te cases conmigo porque te amo, porque no puedo imaginarme la vida sin ti. Deseo ver tu cara por la mañana, por la noche y cien veces entre medio. Deseo envejecer contigo, deseo reír contigo, y deseo suspirar ante mis amigos quejándome de lo mandona que eres, sabiendo secretamente que soy el hombre más afortunado de la ciudad". - Gareth St. Clair.

La suerte es relativa.

He was the luckiest man on earth, and he didn't know why.

How astounding that life can be so cruel one moment, and so generous the next.

In fact, you probably consider yourself lucky to have gotten away with those bad decisions, but you're thankful you learned something in the process.

In this remarkable, complex world of ours, there are certain people who appear to lead charmed lives. They are blessed with natural beauty, have successful and fulfilling careers. They drive expensive cars, live in upscale neighborhoods, and are happily married to gorgeous and brilliant spouses.

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

Il n'y a pas de hasard, il n'y a que des méchancetés du sort et ses perfidies, préparées de longue main, n'ont cette apparence fortuite que parce que les dessous nous en échappent.

Ton père? Il est le dernier de cette race effrayante des Tournemine, qui durant les siècles, ont fondu comme des oiseaux de proie sur tout ce qui passait à portée de leurs tours (.....) Il ne lui restait rien de la puissance ni de l'énorme fortune qui faisaient dire, à certaine époque, que les messieurs de La Hunaudaye étaient seulement un peu moins grands seigneurs que le Roi de France. Il s'appelait Pierre ....

Pero de tonto sólo tengo la suerte...

En la vida, además de talento, hay que tener fortuna. Y la fortuna hay que perseguirla, no cae del cielo... Tú mismo me lo has dicho muchas veces.

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the floud leads on to fortune ommitted, all the voyage of their lives are bound in shallows and in miseries

She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to survive until, one day, you didn't.

BY THE 1890s the Astor estate, comprising the assets of both cousins, was worth about $200 million. In the 1930s the historian Burton J. Hendrick called it "the world's greatest monument to unearned increment…a first mortgage on Fate itself.

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.