Quotes About Fortune

Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.

the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.

Dude you say the best stuff. You're so getting lucky.

the House of Fugger, for which he worked, had enough money to finance ten expeditions, or more;

He renounced slaving and vowed to seek revenge (and his fortune) against those who trafficked

the rest of his life. An ordinary seaman might attain a modest degree of wealth

settle for what the crown granted them—still a fortune beyond imagining

As the All Pervading Life Principle manifests as both the blossom and the decaying leaf in a person's life, it is imperative for the Murid to say 'Alhamdulillah' (Praise God) whether fortune or afflictions befall him or her.

I think there is a fatality in it—I seldom go to the place I set out for.

Nothing is an accident,

Nothing is an accident,' Pauline would say, again and again.

Capii che Nuto aveva davvero ragione quando diceva che vivere in un buco o in un palazzo è lo stesso, che il sangue è rosso dappertutto, e tutti vogliono esser ricchi, innamorati, far fortuna.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

Nasib adalah kesunyian masing-masing

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Charise Mericle Harper

He had had, he felt, a lucky life of good fortune and privilege, and if the sun was setting on people like him, middle-class white guys, well, okay.

I said to myself, we must die. Sooner or later, we must disappear for ever from the face of the earth. Whatever be the links that hold us to life, they must be broken. This scene of existence is, in all its parts, calamitous. The greater number is oppressed with immediate evils, and those, the tide of whose fortunes is full, how small is their portion of enjoyment, since they know that it will terminate.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

That's the state to live and die in!… R-r-rich!

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Let me persuade you then--oh, do let me persuade you," said the child, "to think no more of gains or losses, and to try no fortune but the fortune we pursue together.

Bad Fortune!" cries The Vengeance, stamping her foot in the chair, "and here are the tumbrils! And Evremonde will be despatched in a wink, and she not here! See her knitting in my hand, and her empty chair ready for her. I cry with vexation and disappointment!