Fortunate Quotes
905 quotes by 810 authors
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together:…
— Francis Bacon
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The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the…
— Eric Bana
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the…
— Donald Berwick
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I do have to say I have been very fortunate.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to…
— Kathleen Blanco
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We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
— Aeschylus
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had…
— Anthony Bourdain
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great…
— Luke Bryan
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My son is so fortunate, you know. He's always going to have food. Yes, my children are going to be privileged, but that's why it's…
— Gisele Bundchen
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There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought…
— Sholom Aleichem
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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…
— Jim Caviezel
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I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed…
— Dick Cheney
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I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
— Eric Clapton
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I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough…
— Julie Andrews
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It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and…
— Winfield Scott
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