Quotes About Fortune

I should have begun to worry then, for as fortune comes to you, so does it slip away.

She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.

Some dates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

What is a daughter but good fortune, as complicated as she might be.

Fate is what you make it, or you will be what it makes of you.

Where there were lilacs there would be luck.

You could not have all that you wanted, but if you found love, you were fortunate.

There are some things you have only once in a lifetime, and then only if you're lucky.

Fate is what you make of it. You can make the best of it, or you can let it make the best of you.

Amulets for luck are made of blue beads, dove feathers, mistletoe, wishbones.

She was a great beauty, and in his experience that would bring her both good fortune and grief.

but fate is fate and it can often be what you least expect it to be.

She knew that sometimes when you were supposed to feel lucky, all you felt was despair. You were guilty just because you had managed to live. For reasons you couldn't understand, that made no sense whatsoever, you were the one left unscathed.

Statistics, Jenny had learned early on, never mattered when they applied to you, not if you were the one in a thousand who'd been struck by lightning

Fate was what you made of it. You could make the best of it, or it would make the best of you.

A million dollars in those days was a million dollars.

I already had my bad luck,' she say. 'I had enough to keep me laughing the rest of my life.

Henry IV could count himself fortunate in having the support of his Beaufort half-brothers, whose descendants would remain loyal to the House of Lancaster for the next sixty years.

You are a pot of gold, don't think I don' realize it.

FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

Fortune favors the prepared mind. Beauty seeks attention. Intelligence commands it.

The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense. Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, that's my advice.