Quotes About Fortune

I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior personal character or initiative so much as it was to dumb luck.

The stars played out the way they were supposed to play out, and I'm in the position I'm supposed to be in.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

I'm very lucky in that I have a good cosmetic surgeon.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

Io non è che sentissi la mancanza dei sogni. Tanto avevo i suoi di sogni su cui riflettere, se proprio mi serviva un'altra vita. E poi avevo una vicina che cantava o canticchiava tutto il giorno. Tutto sommato, potevo ritenermi fortunato.

My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us.

There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel." (p. 343)

Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292)

Something wonderful happens to you and you instantly look back over your life and see it as a series of fortunate events stretching off into the distance like mountain peaks. Something terrible happens and your life has always been a litany of woe. The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.

When I was leaving the auditorium at the end of one of my lectures, someone shouted out, You've been lucky! That's right, I thought, I've had more luck than any man deserves.

Winning the lottery isn't luck, it's an accident. Spending the proceeds wisely is luck.

Su cuique mrs fingunt fortnam. (Cornelius Nepos

When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other.

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.

Sometimes the gods give you a break.

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice.

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

I don't know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it's an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no 'should' in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my good luck.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on. Oh, for heaven's sake, she muttered. I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but— He wouldn't let her continue. A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month

A fortune begins with a penny.