Quotes About Fortune

She only had a few coins to her name, but she had the Midas touch when it came to turning destitution into dreams.

Fortis Fortuna adiuvat

Fortune favors the brave.

The great white joker in the sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birth. No two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance, not a leaf or a tree.

When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

Caro m'è 'l sonno, e più l'esser di sasso, mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura; non veder, non sentir m'è gran ventura; però non mi destar, deh, parla basso.

I was fortunate I knew her here." She heard her voice, clipped, distant—suddenly—as if she were describing a third-form teacher who had taught her Linnaean classification. No, she said to herself. I was blessed to have her here. Her passion of place. Her sense of the people. Here is her; leave it at that.

Threw a spade and got a heart.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

We all die. Some of use are fortunate to die fighting for justice.

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place and the right time. While Marie certainly would not have considered herself lucky to have lived through such a devastating period, history is fortunate that she remained still for long enough to record the events that raged on around her.

We all die. Some of us are fortunate enough to die fighting for justice.

I never knew how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand.

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the liquor weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter - it might have all ended up in a one-sentence story.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

As ill-luck would have it.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.