Quotes About Fortune

Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.

I had the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.

I've enjoyed my time at every club I have worked at, I've been lucky, but I won't jump in and finish up working with a chairman I didn't like very much.

I would rather just be successful and have money than be famous.

I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.

The press always compared my family to the Kennedys - so much bad luck.

It's a tough business, yes it is. But I've been fortunate. The only real hard times I had was when I was with Montague's Kentucky Serenades. We really had it tough then.

Throughout my career, in cricket and beyond, I've been incredibly lucky with my marriage. I met Rachael in 2002, and that was the year my England career kicked on. Everything started to click.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.

I think I am very fortunate to have my sister, who is always there to guide me and my food and lodging has been taken care of. Since my basic need of life is secure, when it comes to working, I never appeared like a desperate struggler who needs the job to run the kitchen.

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

If a rooster crows while you're thinking about a man," the fortuneteller had once told Maria, "then he's the one you'll marry.

There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

I'm sorry, Silvan. I didn't mean to wake you." "I wouldn't have missed seeing my son getting barricaded in the privy by a wee lass for anything. Bonny fortune with your plan, m'dear.

Silently, without questioning her luck—luck always favors the arrow that knows its goal—she ascends the stairs.

But I don't believe in luck. I believe that love creates good fortune and builds empires, and it's doubt and envy that destroy both.

What are you going to do now?' She faced him. What I've always wanted. I'm leaving this stupid kingdom to make my fortune, like a prince in one of the tales.' They're not true you know,' Cam said quietly. Meg stared at him for a long, grim moment. Yes they are,' she hissed.... Cam spoke in the sudden silence. 'Look, Meg. I'm not saying princes don't have adventures. But I'll bet a lot of them get eaten by the first dragon they com to.

But in the midst of the monstrous assembly that is slave to fortune, each solitary small figure who linked her hand to another built a chain of loyalty and trust. We make ourselves into the net that we throw across the ocean.

We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.