Quotes About Fortune

Soothsayers make a better living in the world than truthsayers.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed the Cold War with meticulous care in retrospect. Imagine the European diplomats of 1914 or 1938 armed with nuclear weapons. It is easy to believe they would not have been as cautious.

Presidents may run for office on ideological platforms and promised policies, but their presidency is actually defined by the encounter between fortune and virtue, between the improbable and the unexpected—the thing that neither their ideology nor their proposals prepared them for—and their response. The president's job is to anticipate what will happen, minimize the unpredictability, then respond to the unexpected with cunning and power.

There is a quote attributed to Honoré de Balzac: behind every great fortune there is a great crime.

But there are times of suffering which remain in our lives like black absolutes and are not blotted out. Fortunate are those for whom these black stars shed some sort of light.

If at that moment Clement had caught sight of the dog and had managed to capture him, the fates of a number of people in this story would have been entirely different. Such is the vast play of chance in human lives.

I have been on the whole a lucky man. And I would say that even now. Perhaps especially I would say it now.

Tae be touched by real love requires great fortune, it's no in your hands.

A simple aspect of science may be defined as one which, through good fortune, I happen to understand.

If it were evenly distributed, said Rodman, the example of justice in the world might lead at last to a sane world policy. As it is, there is world despair and fury over the selfish fortune of a few, and all behave irrationally in revenge.

Si el destino de un hombre depende de la desgracia de otro, entonces no existe buena fortuna para nadie.

Sociologists say that forty percent of Chileans suffer from depression, especially women, who have to put up with the men. You must remember, too, that our country goes through major disasters, and that there are many poor, so it seems rude to mention one's own good fortune.

Despite all this, they considered themselves fortunate, because they were together. Other families had been split up; first the men had been taken off to what were known as relocation camps, then the women and children sent to another one. In some cases it was two or three years before they were reunited.

Echaba de menos sexo, romance y amor. El primero lo conseguía de vez en cuando, el segundo era cuestión de suerte y el tercero era un premio del cielo que seguramente no le tocaría

Escapar ileso en un combate es cuestión de suerte, hasta el más experto puede perecer por una bala perdida.

La gitana sólo me auguró una larga vida, lo que siempre dicen por una moneda.

Observo hacia atrás la totalidad de mi destino y con un poco de suerte encontraré sentido a la persona que soy.