Top 1200 Fortune Teller Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

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

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

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

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

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

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

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

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

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

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

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

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

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

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

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

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

I'd like to have the fortune, but I don't care too much about the fame.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter, while the moralistic tale is not only dead on arrival, it's already been embalmed. It's safer that way. When a lively story goes dancing out to meet the imagination of a child, the teller loses control over meaning. The child gets to decide what the story means.

I had an audition for Mary Jane Watson in 'Spiderman' and ended up playing Betty Brant in that series. I auditioned for Amy Adams' role in 'Catch Me If You Can' and, you know, ended up playing the bank teller. So there were a lot of times early on where I felt like I was always sort of the bridesmaid, never the bride - never quite right.

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

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

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

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

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

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

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

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

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

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

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.

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

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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

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

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

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

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

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

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.