Top 1200 Bad Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.

I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

Certainly, you may have been hurt beofre in love, but just because you get one bad apple doesn't mean they are all bad - and you can learn from the difficult ones.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

I'm really bad at tests of any kind, so I'm bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when I'm under the gun, I just fail.

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

Bad people drink bad beer. You almost never see an empty bottle of Rochefort tossed onto the side of the road.

Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

I think that I have a seriousness of purpose, a lot of support, and a healthy amount of good fortune.

I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don't necessarily think they are bad.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

I have had players who are good, and who know they are good; I have had players who are bad and know they are bad; I have had players who are good, but who don't know they are good; I have had players who are bad, but who don't know they are bad. It is this last group that has won more games for me than the first three groups combined.

I have done some bad things - things I can't and won't talk about. Nothing that bad, but if that stuff was printed in the papers, they'd paint me as a bad guy. I couldn't be Tevin Campbell, Mr. Perfect. But I really don't want to be Tevin Campbell, Mr. Perfect.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.