Fortune Quotes
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.
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Fortune is either with you or it's not.
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I've had some good fortune in this building. It's always challenging. The two sides upstairs and downstairs play differently. There's a lot of obstacles here and a lot of things that keep you on your toes. But the fans here are great and I think it's our most prestigious tournament.
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We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.
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It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance.
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We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
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When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.
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From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
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Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.
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It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on Mad Max in Africa, so we became really fast friends.
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
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I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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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 I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
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Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass
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A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.
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Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.
