Top 1200 Bad Fortune Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.

Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.

Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail feathers, and 13 stars over its head - this signifies that when the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and lights out for the American eagle.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.

Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good. But the universe tries to maintain balance. So what is good for some may end up being bad for others... Agriculture is good for us humans as it gives us an assured supply of food, but it is bad for the animals that lose their forest and grazing land.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

Twitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers.

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer.

The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

I left school when I was 14 to go into Danish films. When I was 17, I went to Paris to make my fortune.

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

It is my good fortune that I am the first Sikh to be playing lead roles in Hindi films.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off. So do fundamentalists.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

Italian wines don't have to be expensive to be good. It is absolutely ridiculous that people feel that have to spend a fortune.

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.