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Quotes About Fortune

The owner, Al Capon, a small-time egg baron whose fortunes rose and fell with every new study on cholesterol, offered his pudgy hand and blew a gust of smoke my way from a panatela
~ Woody Allen
En este mundo ojete nada es casualidad y todo es coincidencia.
~ Xavier Velasco
I once heard you say that dealing with gods and dealing with men weren't such different things. A prince, you taught me, should honor both gods and men during his days of good fortune, so that both men and gods will remember him in his time of need."   True
~ Xenophon
I am certain that to achieve what stands achieved to-day, you would willingly have foregone the gain of fifty times that paltry sum. To me it seems that to lose your present fortune were a more serious loss than never to have won it; since surely it is harder to be poor after being rich than never to have tasted wealth at all, and more painful to sink to the level of a subject, being a king, then never to have worn a crown.
~ Xenophon
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~ Xenophon
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
~ Christopher Isherwood
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.
~ Christopher Marlowe
There is a natural order. The way things are meant to be. An order that says that the good guys always win. That you die when it's your time, or you have it coming. That the ending is always happy, if only for someone else. Now at some point it became clear to us that our path had been chosen and we had nothing to offer the world. Our options narrowing down to petty crime or minimum wage. So, we stepped off the path, and went looking for the fortune that we knew was looking for us.
~ Christopher McQuarrie
I have a lot of money.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
~ Cicero
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
~ Cicero
Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
What if it was true - what Elend had told his mother? What if he was cursed because the blood of the Demon King ran in his veins? His family fortunes had certainly fallen over the past thousand years - from King of the Seven Realms to starveling street thief.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Enjoy destiny's ride, its ur fate!?!
~ Unknown
Do ya' feel lucky, punk?
~ Clint Eastwood
Now you've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? - Inspector Harry Callahan
~ Clint Eastwood
My daddy always said, 'Luck never gives, it lends
~ Clive Cussler
They who await no gifts from chance, conquer fate.
~ Clive Cussler
I had landed in the lap of the only kind of luxury I have ever cared about – a wealth of opportunity.
~ Clive James
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
~ Coco Chanel
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
~ Coleman Cox
A man's character is his fate.
~ Heraclitus
Character is our destiny.
~ Heraclitus