The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I’d been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.
I’ve had the fortune of working with a large Malayali crew in Priyadarshan’s ‘Bumm Bumm Bole’ and Ajay Verma’s ‘SRK,’ which is a Hindi remake of Sreenivasan’s ‘Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala.’
I’ve made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.
If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don’t publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don’t care about them?
I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it’s probably not even real. I just don’t wanna know.
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
Constantine ‘Costa’ Gratsos had made his fortune as a lifelong associate of shipping icon Aristotle Onassis. He took a liking to me, became my first mentor, and showed me how to swim in the deep, dangerous waters of business.
I couldn’t lie to get myself fame and fortune.
Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.
There’s a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: ‘Aha! It was because he didn’t share. It was the spirits who brought him down.’
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.
A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a ‘Fortune’ survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return.
