Quotes About Fortune

All preordained A prisoner in chains A victim of venomous fate Kicked in the face You can't pray for a place In heaven's unearthly estate Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

An American, a soldier of fortune by profession. Wherever there is trouble in the world the Dwights of all nations foregather. There are not very many of them, thirty or forty perhaps, and they are all supremely competent men because the others have been killed.

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,And none could be unhappy but the great.

It was hit or miss

This is your wyrd," Hild said. "You'll be a queen. You'll have children.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Your arrival is fortuitous.

In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.

One can get very used to the life of nobility if fates allow, but the first order of business is for one to rely on himself.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

riches is not wealth but wealth is riches.

I made the choice, but it was also fate.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Her ?eye yeniden ba?lamak mümkün de?ildi. ?stesem de mümkün de?ildi. Nerede kald???m? unuttu?uma göre, ba?tan ba?lamak için de birtak?m yetenekler gerekliydi; daha talihli do?mu? olmak gerekliydi mesela.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

For myself …In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

What does it mean if you're damned lucky to live in a cul-de-sac with a wall around it?

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

And what a stroke of luck that such a book had fallen into the hands of such a person in such a place.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

They had entered the great upheaval because all doors were closed to them and had come out of it with new fortunes and freshly minted titles. He had lost almost everything but not given up liberty.

Lament not Fortune?s mutability, And seize her fickle favours ere they flee; If others never mourned departed bliss, How should a turn of Fortune come to thee?

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.