Quotes tagged ‘Fortune’

“Father doesn’t care for me, that is to say one-eighth as much as he does for the other children….I pray for a fortune. I care for nothing except to amuse myself in a charmingly expensive way.”

— Alice Roosevelt, politico.com

“[from prologue] For the time would soon come when Hobbits would shape the fortunes of all.”

— Chris Conkling, Peter S. Beagle, imdb.com

“Fortune pisses on me.”

— Michael Apted, Bruno Heller, Lucius Vorenus, Kevin McKidd, imdb.com

“I never even dreamed of having what I have now.”

— Matthew Weiner, Greg, Aaron Eckhart, imdb.com

“Bonasera: I believe in America. America has made my fortune. And I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I gave her freedom but I taught her never to dishonor her family. She found a 'boy friend,' not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. I didn't protest. Two month…”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Don Vito Corleone, Marlon Brando, imdb.com

“A man who never loves gives no hostage to fortune.”

— Steve Blackman, Takeshi Kovacs, Joel Kinnaman, imdb.com

“Ah, cocktail hour. When the sky is gold with the promise of fortunes and sparkling with the light of a thousand stolen sapphires.”

— Daniel Handler, Count Olaf, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

“I once invested in a whorehouse. I made a fortune on that place.”

— Larry David, Larry David, Larry David, imdb.com

“Nelson Muntz: Give me your fortune or I'll pound your withered old face in! Mr. Burns: Ooh, I like his energy. Put him on the callback list.”

— Jace Richdale, Mr. Burns, Christopher Collins, imdb.com

“Sometimes fate just steps in and deals you a good hand.”

— Quinton Peeples, Bridget Carpenter, Jake Epping, James Franco, imdb.com

“Fortune drops something valuable into your lap, you don’t just dump it on the bank of the cut.”

— Steven Knight, Tommy Shelby, Cillian Murphy, imdb.com

“Momma said there's only so much fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showing off. So, I gave a whole bunch of it to the Foursquare Gospel Church and I gave a whole bunch to the Bayou La Batre Fishing Hospital. And even though Bubba was dead, and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts, I gave…”

— Winston Groom, Charlie Peters, Eric Roth, Ernest Thompson, Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, amazon.com

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

— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com

“The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.”

— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com

“WHATEVER YOU DO, DO IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT. Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. The old proverb is full of truth and meaning, 'Whatever is worth doing at al…”

— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com

“Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.”

— Philippa Gregory, amazon.com

“"But there is another essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck – absolute and total luck. When were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. They were given to us. When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be…”

— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu

“Sometimes in life, both at school and afterwards, fortune will go against anyone, but if he just keeps pegging away and don’t lose his courage things always take a turn for the better in the end.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org

“the blessings won’t come unless you are willing to receive them. closed hearts don’t get fed, star.”

— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com

“Creating a huge personal fortune was never particularly a goal of mine, and the proof of that lies in the fact that even to this day most of my, and my family’s, wealth remains in the form of Wal-Mart stock. I think most people in our position would have hedged their bets a long time ago and diversi…”

— Sam Walton, amazon.com