Quotes About Fortune

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

Maybe, she thought, everyone was only ever two feet from disaster, and it was luck, not fundamental goodness, that made all the difference.

The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things.

I felt like I had won the lottery from that one smile.

get a job writing fortune cookies instead. I could try to write really American ones. Already, I've jotted down a few of them. Objects create happiness. The animals are pleased to be of use. Your cities will shine forever. Death will not touch you.

I dig out some change from my pocket. She takes a careful look at the nickels and dimes. God blesses me anyway.

You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.

Our destiny is written for us.

Everything is an accident.

I mean that the book had better make life better better in at least six or seven definite ways immediately. Also, there had better be somewhere in it a method for handling fortune and chance so as to best provoke the most complicated, involved, and glorious refractions of what's possible.

This book was made possible by the letter "ø." Also the letter "æ." The first time I saw them, I fell in love and just had to learn the language they belonged to. That language turned out to be Norwegian, with its rich history of folk tales about trolls and polar bears and clever young lads and lasses out to make their fortune. I only hope that I didn't offend my Danish blacksmith forbears by choosing to study Norwegian instead of Danish in college.

I couldn't believe my good fortune. I don't think Nick could either. In countless interviews, people asked him in front of me if he was jealous. "Her success is my success," he said again and again, so convincingly that even I almost believed him.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Nije obmanjivala sebe životom i znala je da se mora hvatati za njega da bi se bar malo ugrabilo od onog što se naziva sre?om... Sre?a je nešto najnesigurnije na svetu, kao premija na lutriji.

That you have found me Ã¢â'¬Â¦ among so many millions is the miracle of our time!" he cried. "And that I have found you, that is Germany's fortune!

Indeed, anti-immigration sentiment in America would remain strong into 1938, when a Fortune poll reported that some two-thirds of those surveyed favored keeping refugees out of the country.

We are all well and satisfied with the amount and variety of work our good fortune has given us to do.

Edith wrote later, "This was the accidental meeting which carried out the old adage of 'turn a corner and meet your fate.

My game is the Goodwill and Big Lots!, but the compulsion is the same; I have often used thrift shopping as a distraction from life. I could easily have frittered our family's fortune away $20 at a time.

I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.

luck is when the guy next to you gets hit with the arrow.

Some are more fortunately endowed to set the implicit tone for the performance because they present a model self. The less fortunate are obliged to dance a lifetime to the performance cues of others.