Best 87 quotes in «fortunate quotes» category

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” )

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

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.

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

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

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

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

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

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.

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

I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.

I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.

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

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.

I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.