Fortune Quote by F. L. Lucas Download Open image “I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.” — F. L. Lucas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fortune Given Hostage Marriage Son Wealth Wife
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I've been so lucky to have my mum and dad because they've worked to give my brother and I everything. We're not spoilt children. — Amy Childs Copy Share Image
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. — John Webster Copy Share Image
I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else. — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand. — Laura San Giacomo Copy Share Image
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that lead a… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn...… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion,… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A great JRPG captures that feeling of going on an unusual adventure, of bringing a ragtag group of heroes from famine to fortune or… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
