Quotes About Fortune

Coincidences don't get questioned. That's why they are coincidences. ~ Daniel Sempere in The Labyrinth of the Spirits

It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something...

Time and chance. The twin offspring of destiny. That wondrous branching of our fates.

I remember that I did feel, starting my mini-tour, the resident anxiety you develop when you know you've been too lucky; at any moment, maybe next Tuesday afternoon, I would be stricken with something unbearable.

Finding a penny faceup meant you would have good luck, but if the penny was facedown, then you were supposed to turn it over and leave it for the next person to have the good luck.

You mean like money?

how lucky she was to have Dirk for a date

Even now, missing Earth, he felt sympathy only for those aboard Gypsy, those orphaned, damaged, disaffected, dispossessed, Aspergerish souls whose anger at that great abstraction, The World, was more truly an anger at all those fortunate enough to be unlike them. We were all so young. How can you be so young, and so hungry for, and yet so empty of life?

If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work.

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

I feel happy. I want to enjoy this feeling and revel in my good fortune but there's something niggling at me in the back of my mind. There's a little voice whispering to me, "Things are too perfect." It almost feels like the calm before the storm.

It was nothing short of marvelous the way the world worked out.

It seems I have always been fortunate to be in a certain provident, which must be my sole skill, and worth, and luck. [p. 138]

And I do not live in broad infamy, nor hide from righteous pursuers or seekers of the truth. I do not mask my face or screen my doings of each day. I have not yet been banished from this earth. And though nearly every soul I've closely known has come to some dread or grave misfortune, I instead persist, with warmth and privilege accruing to me unabated, ever securing my good station here, the last place I will belong.

It's in the tilting and thrashing that we wangle our luck.

Of course, 'Kahaani' is my huge break. Lady Luck smiled at me.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.

I started at Howard in the drama department. At the same time, I was a fledgling member of the Black Repertory Company in Washington, D.C. When I graduated, I had the great fortune of being in the Los Angeles production of 'For Colored Girls'... And all these years since, I've done stage work.

I'm very lucky with my metabolism.

I'm lucky I have good metabolism and I'm very grateful for that.