Quotes About Fortune

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Me I was always lucky. My whole life. I wouldnt be here otherwise. Scrapes I been in. But the day I seen her come out of Kerr's Mercantile and cross the street and she passed me and I tipped my hat to her and got just almost a smile back, that was the luckiest.

They said that it was no accident of circumstance that a man be born in a certain country and not some other and they said that the weathers and seasons that form a land form also the inner fortunes of men in their generations and are passed on to their children and are not so easily come by otherwise.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune.

I've no sympathy with people to whom things happen. It may be that their luck is bad, but is that to count in their favor? I

People prefer fate to chance.

Fate can be appeased, gods prayed to. But chance is just what it says.

There's no way to answer that question. My friend John maintains that if things are going reasonably well it's all your own doing and if not then it's all bad luck.

if things are going reasonably well it's all your own doing and if not then it's all bad luck.

Liebe ist eben genauso ungerecht verteilt auf dieser Welt wie Regen. Die einen kriegen entschieden zu viel davon ab und die anderen zu wenig. - Frieda

For Her Ugliness loved stories full of darkness. She didn't want to be told tales of good fortune and beauty, she liked to hear about death, ugly things, secrets heavy with tears. She wanted her very own world, and it had never heard of beauty and good fortune.

In our choices lie our fate.

Ich suche seit Jahren nach diesem Schloss! Dornröschens Bett. Die Kaiserin würde ein Vermögen dafür zahlen.' Clara blickte ungläublig über den stillen Hof. 'Angeblich findet jeder, den in dem Bett schläft, wahre Liebe. Aber wie es scheint,' Jacob musterte die dunklen Fenster, 'ist der Prinz nie gekommen.' Oder er war wie ein ausgespie?ter Vogel in den Dornen verendet.

If a blind, three-legged racehorse named "Next Stop: Glue Factory" were racing down at the Fort Erie track, you can bet Lex Galbraith would've bet his life savings on the nose of that nag.

Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance.

In my expectation that good fortune will lead inextricably to its reversal, I should note that I don't think I'm less deserving of happiness than anyone else; it is that in an unequal world, nobody deserves the privileges I enjoy.

Beriel gave this gift to Elske carelessly, as if to be trusted were the common fortune. But Elske opened her heart to take the gift into her care as if it were a babe.

Be braver in your body, or your luck will leave you. . . . Listen for the voice of water.

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

It is the first time I have ever had the good fortune to meet the representatives of the employees of this great company, its officers and superintendents, together, and

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.