Quotes About Fortune

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

Serendipity… you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of…. Now do you understand serendipity?

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

Quand j'étais petit, je me suis aperçu que je n'avais pas de ligne de chance, alors avec le rasoir de mon pére... zac, je m'en suis fait une comme je voulais.

No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.

I just want to be rich and famous.

Acknowledgements Reading Group Notes Timeline About the Author By Ian Rankin Copyright Serendipity. According to the dictionary, it means the ability to make 'happy chance finds'. Serendip was the old name for Ceylon. Horace Walpole is credited with coining the term, after the fairy tale 'The Three Princes of Serendip', whose titular heroes were always stumbling across things they weren't looking for.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

Desafortunado Considérate desafortunado únicamente si comienzas a fabricar ataúdes y la gente deja de morir.

Call yourself unlucky only if you take up coffin-making and people stop dying.

Cuando la fortuna llama, abre la puerta", dicen. Pero, ¿por qué mantienes la puerta cerrada y obligas a la fortuna a que llame?

Fate is kind to those who risk it all.

Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

Goodbye my doubts, and good luck in hell.

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost.

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

Fortune favored him… in the opportune moment of his death.

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

Her fingers were cool, and her palms were strangely devoid of any lines, as if her life was yet to be determined.

was the product of fate, or chance, or luck, or even divine will.

Cuando tenía doce años quería ser actriz. No he tenido suerte: he sido emperatriz

All his working life had been spent in resolving other people's problems, but they had been the problems of strangers, dealt with at arm's length through the medium of a solicitor, and considered in the quiet, dust-laden atmosphere of the Temple, where matters of life and death, fortune and bankruptcy resolved themselves into carefully phrased opinions and the comparison of reported cases.

I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.