Quotes About Fortune

I'm extraordinarily lucky to have so many friends across such a diverse group of people. One day I'll be at Oxford, the next at some complete idiot's lunch.

I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.

I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

Fortune has, in the main, hitherto looked unfavourably upon me since I left home, but I begin to hope for better things. Still, in all my past distresses, one thought has consoled me - I have learned to appreciate a parent's love.

Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

I left school when I was 14 to go into Danish films. When I was 17, I went to Paris to make my fortune.

You can have a very bad end with Parkinson's, but on the other hand, you can be like me, because I'm lucky. I'm not having a bad end.

I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Especially striking was an upsurge of interest in astrology, fortune telling and all manner of numerical and alphabetical methods of divining the future.34

Just as Wiseman's research demonstrates that we can make our own luck, including by lowering our rigid expectations and being open to new ones, Tim Russert made his own luck.

now. The burden of it was that if you try to follow now, and be lucky enough

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me. ~ Nostradamus

With money you were a succesful man, without it you were a failure.

In all of life, but especially in war, the greatest power belongs to fortune. —CAESAR

The people there were obsessed with gold. They were convinced they were going to make a fortune, and some of them did, but they also spent it.

The fortune of the man who sits also sits

You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.