Quotes About Fortune

When he learned that he'd lost what remained of his fortune, he went up onto the moors and shot himself with his grouse gun, although how he managed to do it has always been the object of speculation, my father never having been a particularly good shot.

Estás só. Ninguém o sabe. Cala e finge. Mas finge sem fingimento. Nada 'speres que em ti já não exista, Cada um consigo é triste. Tens sol se há sol, ramos se ramos buscas, Sorte se a sorte é dada.

I already have. Not at all that far from where we were, but far enough away. Actually, we're both fortunate and unfortunate.

Nec vta nec fortna hominibus perpes est. (Publilius

Roman philosopher Seneca who some two thousand years ago said, 'Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Rosy. Indeed! Good lack, good lack, to think of the instability of human affairs! Nothing certain in this world — most deceived when most confident — fools of fortune all.

For all the luck in the world, there is no luck in the grave.

The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life. no one knows why some things work out and some things don't. Why some of us are lucky and some of us get...

Behind many a successful person lies a string of lucky breaks that we have no inkling about.

seven million dollars

She feeds him and sets him up with the TV. The screen is news, travel, the company of others, a reminder of the luck he'd had all life long and failed to see.

Silliman had struck oil—oil suitable for lighting.

What was life but good barstools and bad ones, good fortune and bad, shifting from Sunday to Sunday, year to year, like the fortunes of the New England Patriots. There was no such thing as continual good fortune—or misfortune, except for the Red Sox, whose curse seemed eternal.

Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate

the best people have the rottenest luck

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like--- Like our low prices at Bargain Mart! Stheno suggested.

Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.

Gratitude asks, "Why me? Why do I get all that I have?

What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things—death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

They were lucky. They'd been given history.

The way to become rich is to make money, my dear Edna, not to save it

Do not mourn over the happiness you were fortunate enough to possess, lest you turn that joy into grief. Be glad that you had what others may never in their lives experience. The gods have dealt kindly with you, Daughter.

Si es atal es atal. What will be will be.

It makes me happy, and also sad, to think that this is where playful language is cherished now, and where the verbosity that I and my clever friends prized in our youth has gone to reside: the slums. Words don't cost a penny; during the Depression, they were all many of us had. I used them to make a fortune.