Quotes About Fortune

A fool moans when fortune takes him down, and it takes a true fool to moan when fortune takes him up.

Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution. — WWII German U-Boat Commander Eric Topp

Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables ? with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card.

the world had an abundance of money.

What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

San?r?m ?anss?z bir y?ld?z?n alt?nda do?mu?um.

He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where there were no last minute reversals of fortune.

I'll be a little riled if I end up being the one to die in the line of duty, because this ain't my duty and it ain't yours, either. This is just fortune hunting." "Well, we wasn't finding one

The luck of Teela Brown.

Danger doesn't exist for Teela Brown

A body makes his own luck, be it good or bad.

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

shed his Harvard persona in his late twenties and moved to South Carolina, where he'd immediately made a fortune in real estate. Judging from everything Emily had told me, he'd morphed into a first-class Southern boy, a real straw-chewin', tobacco-spittin' hick, which of course appalled Miranda, the epitome of class and sophistication. B

Laurence Sterne

I have never found 'luck' a dependable companion

They've transformed the weather into some sort of celestial crap game.

I might add that one short novel of Schnitzler's, Casanova's Homecoming, was on the shelves of my parents' library, and I had the great good fortune to read it at an impressionable age.

Death and life are both simply the hazards of a chance which cannot be averted

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.