Fortune Quotes · Page 85

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive…

— Euripides

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

— Karl Kraus

I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on 'The Leftovers' are thoughtful, hard working, open people…

— Carrie Coon

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

— Warren Buffett

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to…

— John Locke

I spent my youth and my most formative years in Africa. I left Africa when I was about 20, 21, and when…

— Kofi Annan

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

— Maxwell Bodenheim

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

— Dean Koontz

Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle…

— Ovid

Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her…

— Samuel Johnson

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

— Aeschylus

Some people are just really goofy kind of guitar acts, and they go out and do these colleges and start making a…

— Greg Giraldo

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

— Thomas Gray

Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood.…

— Raven Grimassi

Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that…

— Daisaku Ikeda

We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get…

— Ronnie Wood

Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task…

— Noam Chomsky

We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of…

— Anonymous

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

— William Shakespeare

'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't…

— Kurt Braunohler

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

— Fernando de Rojas

At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain…

— Rick Riordan

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

— Frank Sinatra

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

— Juvenal

Snapchat's ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram.

— Mitch Lasky