Fortune Quotes
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But no, he did not believe in capricious fortune, but in a carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain laid the foundation for a woof thread of joy.
Elizabeth Goudge -
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
George Horace Lorimer
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If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Winifred Holtby -
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
Anthony Trollope -
It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
Norm MacDonald -
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.
Beth Revis -
T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
Homer
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Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Thus does good fortune follow on the steps of the reckless.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.
Stuart Wilde -
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
Herbie Hancock -
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
Seneca the Younger -
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton