333 Quotes About Fortune
- Author Lionel Shriver
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But I've never met anybody whose life has taken a sudden turn for the worse who thought a reversal of fortune was just what they had coming to them.
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- Author Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am not listening to him any more, but hemust have strayed from his original subject because I suddenly hear:". . . to have, as you, the good fortune of writing a book." I have to say something. "Good fortune," I say, dubiously.He mistakes the sense of my answer and rapidly corrects himself:"Monsieur, I should have said: 'merit.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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Fortune favors the nonchalant.
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- Author Niccolò Machiavelli
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Men can assist Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her schemes but they cannot break them.
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- Author George Eliot
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When events turn out so much better for a man than he has had reason to dread, is it not a proof that his conduct has been less foolish and blameworthy than it might otherwise have appeared? When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritorious, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune .
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- Author Victor Hugo
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Avaj! Šta su sve te sudbine tako gurnute i izmešane? Kuda idu? Zašto su takve?Onaj koji to zna vidi sav mrak.On je jedan. Zove se bog.
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- Author Melinda Salisbury
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Fortune favors the bold." I smile weakly."So does death," she counters immediately. "The craven tend to live much longer than the heroic.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Faith is a fortune.
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- Author Frank Herbert
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Fortune passes everywhere.
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