Quotes About Fortune

When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.

Property in Provence can cost a fortune if you don't know where to look and a glass of champagne sipped on the pristine whitewashed terrace of one of the seafront hotels in Cannes can set you back the price of a meal in any other establishment.

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

This cancer isn't life-threatening so I consider myself to be very fortunate. In the course of my charity work I meet so many people who have suffered terribly - what I've got really isn't an issue.

Casino games are the one kind of content that has stood the test of time for decades.

On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic than Reverend Jim's driving test. It was maybe the funniest show I did.

If we deny the wishes of the soul, then soul will become disgusted and withdraw vital energy from our lives. We'll become prone to illness and misfortune. Following the secret wishes of the soul, on the other hand, can return us to the natural path of our energies and restore vitality, good health and good fortune. The process can begin right away, in a round of dream- sharing, when we make room to move with the energy of a dream instead of just talking about it.

I'd been lucky never to have my nose rearranged. It was still on the straight and narrow

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course,From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag. - The Greatness of Saturn

There is in the world today a great and mysterious force that shapes the fortunes of millions of people. It is called the stock market.

if they believe that their fortunes are inversely correlated with the foreigners' fortunes, that the foreigners have to lose for them to win—then their theology will probably be less inclusive. Let's

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That's our fortune.

Wonderful, wonderful, yet again the sword of fate severs the head from the hydra of chance.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen.

There is no such thing as an extraordinary coincidence. There is only destiny.

But that is not true for all folk. Some folk are meant to argue with fate. And win.

Vim a saber mais tarde que muitos homens vêem sempre a boa fortuna dos outros como uma desfeita contra si próprios.

You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this nought of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draught.

luck belongs to children and madmen.