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Quotes About Fortune

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.
~ Hope Solo
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.
~ Horace Walpole
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
~ Jane Austen
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
~ John Lyly
I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.
~ Joseph Addison
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
~ Karrine Steffans
Girls with poison necklacesto save themselves from torture.Just as women wear amuletswhich hold their rolled up fortunestranscribed on ola leaf.
~ Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
Make your own luck, and then share it with others.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Fortune hides behind action.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.
~ Richard Sherman
Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility.
~ Joanna Krupa
Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
~ Lauren Bacall
I don't wish stardom on anyone. When I hear people say, 'this guy's a star,' I always say, 'good luck.'
~ B. J. Armstrong
I feel there is a curse on rock stars.
~ Marc Bolan
All stars are businessmen. Once you decide to become a star, you are talking about money, fame, and being successful.
~ Kamal Haasan
Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.
~ Sophia Myles
Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.
~ James McBride
Stepping down after 18 years as the head football coach here at Oklahoma, and I feel like I've absolutely been the luckiest, most fortunate guy in the world.
~ Bob Stoops
I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
~ Larry David
I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.
~ Marisa Tomei
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
~ Thomas Fuller
Care and diligence bring luck.
~ Thomas Fuller
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,-but far above the great.
~ Thomas Gray
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,He had not the method of making a fortune.
~ Thomas Gray