Fortune Quotes

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I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may… — Gore Vidal
At the Feast of Fortune, she'll awaken, and the demigods will be cut down like-- like---" "Like our low prices at Bargain Mart!" Stheno suggested. — Rick Riordan
I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be… — Niccolo Machiavelli
You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis… — Aldous Huxley
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow. — Jules Verne
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius… — Amanda Hocking
I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my… — Meg Cabot
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his… — Charles Dickens
Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would… — Julie Garwood
Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential… — Suzanne Collins
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune. — Marcus Aurelius
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen… — George Orwell
Fortunate are those who take the first steps. — Paulo Coelho
You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling… — Michael J. Sullivan
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable… — Thomas Browne
And anyway, considering that her mother dies and her boyfriend's spending a small fortune to get high off someone else's bad breath, I'd say Sophie's… — Rachel Vincent
Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like. — C.S. Lewis
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. — William Shakespeare
We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. — Dean Koontz
When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you… — Dashiell Hammett
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And… — William Shakespeare
Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy. — Robert Burton
It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but from the accidents… — Katherine Boo

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