Quotes About Fortune

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

In modern times, dogs may be pampered, but historically, a dog's life wasn't much to bark about. Hence a dog's chance is a small chance.

I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Everybody has ways in which they've been lucky in life, and everybody also has ways in which they've definitely rolled snake eyes.

I think I've been very fortunate. I have obviously played a lot of snaps and played a lot of games, so my mileage is high. But I've been very fortunate that I've been able to stay relatively healthy, no major surgeries and stuff like that.

I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

In my country, and in my time, learning improves fortunes enough, but not minds; if it meet with those that are dull and heavy, it overcharges and suffocates them, leaving them a crude and undigested mass; if airy and fine, it purifies, clarifies, and subtilizes them, even to exinanition.

Neither good nor ill is done to us by Fortune: she merely offers us the matter and the seeds: our soul, more powerful than she is, can mould it or sow them as she pleases, being the only cause and mistress of our happy state or our unhappiness.

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.

The way of truth is one and artless; the way of private gain and success...is double, uneven, and fortuitous.' -On the Useful and the Honourable.

Even at its worst, there are tiny holes in the midnight canopy of my bad luck.

Fortune favors the pure of heart and the brassy of bollock.

Her shit, Jesse liked to tell himself, had finally come in.

birds of fortuity flutter down on her shoulders...

Necessity knows no magic formuae—they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs outside of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message as much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read it's message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us.

En el caso de un hombre hermoso, el juego de las casualidades eligió el promedio de todas las dimensiones