Top 1200 Bad Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

I've had the great fortune of working with incredible people on many shows.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.

The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.

If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal.

You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

A gimmick would be something you'd do to attract attention or to bring fame and fortune.

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.

Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.

There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad critic gives it away that they don't like you as a person. I quite like that as well, because it means that I've won.

England is a lucky country for me, and fortune comes only with hard work.

When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

The best way to make a small fortune in racing is to start with a big one.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

It's irrational to assume you can ever truly evaluate yourself as a good or bad human being. You will never have enough information.That "bad person" at work who torments you might be an excellent father to his kids. That other "bad person" at work who screwed up royally today? That error might later lead to a huge breakthrough. We will never have enough info to holistically evaluate a person and score them in totality as "bad" or "good."

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.

I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to?

You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.

There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - I'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out there is bad - but there has been a lot of bad fantasy written by people who read a lot of fantasy and so all they keep doing is recycling it.

A lot of people say don't let bad vibes into the studio, but I love to. If you're having a bad day, write a song that feels like that.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

At Manchester United, you can have a bad day, and the supporters understand. Even in a crunch game, you can have a bad result, and they still back the team.

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

There is no bad time to laugh. I always joke, even five minutes before a game. It's not bad to stay a little immature.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

When you're acting, playing the bad guy, you get a chance to open up this box inside and look at all the bad things that you've got in there.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

We all have demons. I am a human being and I have bad days and I have bad things going on in my head that I have to deal with, but I'm very confident in my recovery.