Best 584 quotes in «fortune quotes» category

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

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

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

I'm working full time on my job and part time on my fortune

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

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.

In show business, you can't make a living. You can only make a fortune, but you can't make a living.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'

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

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring. [Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]

It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.