Fortune Quotes

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Good fortune has side effects.

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

... it was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew I would never die of hunger.

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.

Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.

I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

I'd pick fortune over fame any day.

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

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

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

The fate of all of us here has been to know that we are prisoners of power. No one knows why us in particular, but what a great fortune!

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

Giving away a fortune is taking Christianity too far.

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.