Quotes About Fortune

it seems a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100 ft. away. She's alright, the baby's doing fine...ofcourse the soldier's a little pissed off...

Money is the consolidation and storage of energy

The rose is red, the violet's blue, The honey's sweet, and so are you. Thou art my love and I am thine; I drew thee to my Valentine. The lot was cast and then I drew, And fortune said it should be you.

Veo que no has encontrado a tu tío. Qué pena. Si fueras un poco menos astuto, quizá tendrías más suerte.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.

Indeed, confident assurances and promises of fortune, when whispered into the right ears, often serve as substitutes for thinking at all.

confident assurances and promises of fortune, when whispered into the right ears, often serve as substitutes for thinking at all.

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

And evidently it was a well-known fact that a single vicar, in possession of a modest fortune, must be in need of a wife.

It's all along of the unicorn's horn – it's all along of the glorious hand. Huzzay, three times huzzay for the doctor!' Lord, how they cheered their surgeon! It was he who had brought the narwhal's tusk aboard: and the severed hand, the Hand of Glory, was his property: both symbolized (and practically guaranteed) immense good fortune, virility, safety from poison or any disease you chose to name: and both had proved their worth.

Naturally wealth had a bad reputation. Two things changed. The first was the rule of law. For most of the world's history, if you did somehow accumulate a fortune, the ruler or his henchmen would find a way to steal it. But in medieval Europe something new happened. A new class of merchants and manufacturers began to collect in towns.10 Together they were able to withstand the local feudal lord.

Sometimes you hit the jackpot and sometimes the jackpot hits you, I guess.

Are we not all creatures of chance?

She felt the curious flattening of inquiring spirit the traveller suffers from, knowing himself without occupation or investment in the fortunes of a strange city.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

On that trip it was my good fortune to be wrong; being mistaken is the essence of the traveler's tale.

She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us.

when fate is very generous with us, there is always a well into which all our dreams can tumble.

There were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. [...] People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same

Everything depends on One Word : Maktub !

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.