Quotes About Fortune

I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.

I'm very conscious of the luck I've had. It's important to have this in your mind and remember it.

I feel like the luckiest person alive. I spend my life doing the stuff I love. I'm surrounded by inventive people who are full of energy and life.

I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.

I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight, the 'in-betweens,' and become fortunately entangled, moving from art to science.

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.

You will not be making light of the situation if I die before your wedding. In that event, Desdemona and my fortune will go to my distant cousin in England. You know very well that pitiful sister of yours will never marry, so the responsibility of providing an heir to the Blackwell fortune is yours. It's time you face up to that obligation, and my new will forces you to do just that.

Maybe it should just make you feel lucky. Yeah, you were really lucky you didn't die after the accident. But you were a lot luckier to be born in the first place. So if you're here for a reason, maybe we all are.

Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.

They do everything in their power to make fortune favor them in this life, but nevertheless they think so little of it, in relation to eternity, that they view the events of the world as we do those of a play.

I entirely abandoned the study of letters. Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth traveling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and at all times reflecting upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it.

Impose ta chance, serre ton bonheur et va vers ton risque. À te regarder, ils s'habitueront.

Impose your luck, embrace your happiness and go toward your risks: by looking at you, they'll get used to it.

Maybe there are stories, even, like solitaire or canasta; they are shuffled and dealt, then they do or they do not come out. Or the deck falls on the floor. Or a piece of country music, a quartet, a parade, the flag—all the things one ought by now to be too old for—touch, whatever it is.

it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery.

I got the address from her, and by good luck it wasn't Bucyrus, Ohio, but merely Brooklyn. Whatever else you want to say about Brooklyn, and so do I, it does have one big advantage, it's close.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

A quienquiera que tenga se le dará más, y tendrá en abundancia. A quienquiera que no tenga, incluso lo que tenga, le será arrebatado.

A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it.