Fortunate Quotes
905 quotes by 787 authors
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I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.
— Denzel Washington
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I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a…
— Sigourney Weaver
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I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people…
— Venus Williams
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It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In…
— Tom Wolfe
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I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.
— Tiger Woods
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Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.
— Marisha Pessl
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Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left…
— Seamus Heaney
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Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to…
— Dalai Lama
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...she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design,…
— Charles Frazier
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Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating…
— Dr. Seuss
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It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us…
— Jon Katz
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Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this…
— Richard Russo
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A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are…
— John F. Kennedy
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Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed…
— Haruki Murakami
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How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and…
— Winston Churchill
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is…
— Unknown Author
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or…
— Oscar Wilde
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Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you…
— Elizabeth Moon
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