Fortune Quotes
1539 Fortune quotes by 990 unique authors
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Might have a couple of kinks to work through," Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there…
— Ally Carter
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Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so…
— Jonathan Tropper
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Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters…
— Jennifer Egan
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I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.
— Deanna Raybourn
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The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they…
— Lauren Willig
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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a…
— Jose Rizal
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...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.
— Ally Carter
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[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out…
— Arthur Golden
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This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling…
— Patrick deWitt
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Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun…
— Suzanne Collins
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Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.
— Amish Tripathi
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It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our…
— Jane Austen
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It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much.…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same
— Barbara Kingsolver
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
— Alexandre Dumas
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The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to…
— Philippa Gregory
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Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to…
— Julia Quinn
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The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
— Steven Pressfield
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You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune.
— Ilona Andrews
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And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are…
— Terry Pratchett
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Atra esterni' ono thelduin Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr Un du evari'nya ono varda (May good fortune rule over you peace live in your…
— Christopher Paolini
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