Quotes About Fortune

Funny how unlucky events can lead to lucky ones -Emma

Luck, I was starting to realize, comes in many flavors." -Emma

I'd been thinking of luck as 'things I wanted to happen', but luck was also 'preventing things I didn't want to happen'" - Emma

The day you decide to do it is your lucky day

Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.

But the most fortunate companies have audiences. An audience can be your secret weapon.

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

Everything in the world was definitely based only in luck. Some people won Lotto, some people walked down the street and air conditioners fell on their heads, and the rest of the world was somewhere in between. Unfortunately, Joey felt closer to the air conditioner guy than the Lotto guy.

Sin desgracias para nosotros, se entiende; para los enemigos, qué importa: sus desgracias son nuestra fortuna, hasta que termina la contienda y se rinden.

Quizá no contaba con que hay personas que, si lo divisan a uno y lo eligen, no abandonan ni se retiran del todo, sino que son como el buitre: se alejan y trazan círculos y sobrevuelan y esperan y prueban nueva fortuna.

Las cosas pasan, es verdad, pero siempre le pasan a alguno y no a otros, y se lamentan los que las padecen

The Neimoidian gave a long, gurgling sigh. "You're right, Des. The decision is made. Grim fate and ill fortune have conspired against you. It's not like sabacc; you can't fold a bad hand. In life you just play the cards you're dealt.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

luck runs out but blessings never do!

She had several times been in love with fortunes or careers, but only once with a man.

fusese totdeauna dispus s? cread? c? hazardul È™i împrejur?rile jucau un rol minor în soarta oamenilor, în comparaÈ›ie cu înclinaÈ›ia lor înn?scut? de a-È™i f?uri singuri soarta.

the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

it is always easy, as well as agreeable, for the the inferior ranks of mankind to claim a merit from the contempt of that pomp and pleasure, which fortune has placed beyond their reach. The virtue of the primitive Christians, like that of the first Romans, was very frequently guarded by poverty and ignorance.

The narrow policy of preserving, without any foreign mixture, the pure blood of the ancient citizens, had checked the fortune, and hastened the ruin, of Athens and Sparta. The aspiring genius of Rome sacrificed vanity to ambition, and deemed it more prudent, as well as honorable, to adopt virtue and merit for her own wheresoever they were found, among slaves or strangers, enemies or barbarians.

but he'd managed to get his hands on a big estate

Qué representa esa rueda? —preguntó Pentecost. —Es la rueda de la fortuna, señor —contestó el padre. —¿Y qué significa eso, buen hombre? —Pues que aunque un hombre alcance fama y fortuna, puede volver a caer en la miseria. O al revés. Significa que la vida es como una rueda, señor, que no cesa de girar. Y nos enseña que debemos ser humildes, señor. Pues aunque lleguemos muy alto, podemos caer muy bajo.

Capital erosion was another way to waste his substance, to become as thin and hollow as he felt, to lighten the burden of undeserved good fortune, and commit a symbolic suicide while he still dithered about the real one. He also nursed the opposite fantasy that when he became penniless he would discover some incandescent purpose born of his need to make money.

Only in a country free from the funnelling of primogeniture and the levelling of égalité could the fifth generation of a family still be receiving parcels of wealth from a fortune that had essentially been made in the 1830s.

Doesn't she realize that the life she is living is an accident of fortune? Doesn't she know that she is an exception in this world, where it is normal to be unhappy, to be hungry, to work non-stop and earn next to nothing, and to suffer the whims of everything from tyrants to hurricanes and earthquakes?