Best 87 quotes in «fortunate quotes» category

I consider myself fortunate that I had only a decade of exposure to the biologically toxic field of high altitude astronomy.

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.

I consider myself fortunate that I spent three years working at 7,775 feet before spending five years working at 13,796 feet on the summit of Mauna Kea. I can only wonder how much more severe my long term very high altitude sickness could have been without the initial adaptation to the lower altitude.

I consider myself fortunate that I no longer live in the home where I broke a mercury filled astronomical spectral lamp.

It's bad luck not to believe in luck.

In India, we have a saying: 'Always look down, never look up," he said. "When you are trying to determine where you stand in life, don't look upward at the rich people, the people with everything. Look downward at the people who have nothing, those begging on the street, those living in the slums. There's no end to looking up and feeling badly. And if you try to spit upward it only falls down upon your own face. Only by looking down do you understand your dharma.

Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her parents had had on her personality. Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, there are no fortunate. The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous — that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn without ceasing to fly — therein lies the marvel of genius. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness

If any writer in this country has collected as fine and passionate a group of readers as I have, they’re fortunate and lucky beyond anyone’s imagination. It remains a shock to me that I’ve had a successful writing career. Not someone like me; Lord, there were too many forces working against me, too many dark currents pushing against me, but it somehow worked. Though I wish I’d written a lot more, been bolder with my talent, more forgiving of my weaknesses, I’ve managed to draw a magic audience into my circle. They come to my signings to tell me stories, their stories. The ones that have hurt them and made their nights long and their lives harder.

We are so surrounded with this fortune that we tend to forget that though subjectively in abundance, objectively this is a rarity.

You too are going to die, and that's because you too were fortunate enough to have lived. You may not feel this. But go stand on a cliff sometime, and maybe you will.

The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ( “Keeping up with the Joneses” )

Some have the fortune to wake up from a nightmare (...) Others live in a constant daymare.

Some have the fortune to wake up from a nightmare (...) Others live in a constant nightmare.

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.

I am doomed or fortunate to stick to what I do best.

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.

God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.

I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.

I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.

I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

I'm very fortunate. I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything.

I'm fortunate because people can't put a label on me, which I embrace wholeheartedly.

I really feel incredibly fortunate to not be stereotyped. And it's something that I and my representatives are very keen on preserving.

I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.

I'm incredibly fortunate and it's important to me to make sure that I give back where I can.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.