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Quotes About Fortune

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. ... Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies Hazel: I give them away. It's good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you.
~ Fannie Flagg
If good wishes had been ten-dollar bills, he would have left a rich man.
~ Fannie Flagg
I've always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone's affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Mi irrita la felicità di tutti questi uomini che non sanno di essere infelici. La loro vita umana è piena di tutto ciò che costituirebbe una serie di angosce per una sensibilità vera. Ma poiché la loro vera vita è vegetativa, quello che subiscono passa loro accanto senza toccarli intimamente. Vivono con la fortuna autentica di vivere senza accorgersene. Per questo, comunque, vi amo tutti. Miei cari vegetali!
~ Fernando Pessoa
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.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Só com um jeito do corpo Feito sem dares por isso Fazes mais mal que o demônio Em dias de grande enguiço.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A MORTE CHEGA CEDO   A morte chega cedo, Pois breve é toda vida O instante é o arremedo De uma coisa perdida.   O amor foi começado, O ideal não acabou, E quem tenha alcançado Não sabe o que alcançou.   E tudo isto a morte Risca por não estar certo No caderno da sorte
~ Fernando Pessoa
I consider myself fortunate for no longer having family, as it relieves me of the obligation to love someone, which I would surely find oppressive.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Every struggle, no matter what its goal, is forced by life to make adjustments; it becomes a different struggle, serves different ends, and sometimes accomplishes the very opposite of what it set out to do. Only slight goals are worth pursuing, because only a slight goal can be entirely fulfilled. If I struggle to make a fortune, I can make it in a certain way; the goal is slight, like all quantitative goals, personal or otherwise, and it's attainable, veri
~ Fernando Pessoa
Being famous is complete luck, and that's something you can't bank on.
~ Bo Burnham
I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.
~ Chazz Palminteri
I never thought about being famous.
~ Damon Wayans
I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
~ Radha Mitchell
To be famous and broke is hard.
~ David Spade
I just want to be rich and famous.
~ Ian Hart
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
~ Duke Ellington
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
~ John Dryden
I'm a big believer in fate, and it's working out well so far.
~ Jodie Comer
I do believe in fate.
~ Emma Bunton
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Fate has blessed me.
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
~ Wayne Newton