fortune quotes

• To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. [Hamlet] (William Shakespeare) [question/mind/fortune/take]
• This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! (William Shakespeare) [fortune/behavior/sun/villains]
• We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. (Mark Twain) [fortune/poets/brotherhood]
• Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. (Vincent Voiture) [fortune/give]
• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. (Walt Whitman) [fortune/fortune]
• Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. (Oscar Wilde) [/source/fortune]
• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man. (Adam Baldwin) [fame/fortune/love/people]
• It was the basis of the original Coca-Cola, where they made their fortune. Then in 1919, they passed the Harrison Act, where they made cocaine illegal, so the OTC, the "over-the-counter drugs," the base became alcohol. (Al Lewis) [basis/fortune]
• I've had the great fortune to work with many great directors [and] great actors, and I just want to thank them. (Anthony Hopkins) [fortune/actors]
• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews. (Barry Pepper) [actors/fortune/mind]
• “I was really short. I remember going to the doctor to see if there were injections I could take to be taller. But whenever we ran a lap, I wanted to run the fastest. I don't know why, on the wheel of fortune of personality traits, it stopped on ambition and hustle and drive.” (Sean Astin) [remember/take/fortune/personality]
• Barbra, I had the good fortune of being directed by several years ago in Prince Of Tides. She is incredibly generous. There is something about having an ear like hers to the musicality, it just leaves her naturally to wonderful directing as in acting. (Blythe Danner) [fortune/being]
• “What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.” (Adolf Hitler) [fortune/people]
• When people have told my fortune or whatever I've always kind of not really listened. (Kelly Lynch) [people/fortune]
• If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company. (Sela Ward) [fortune/company]
• You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me. (Donald Sutherland) [talent/amount/fortune/truth]
• Up on Housing Project Hill It’s either fortune or fame You must pick one or the other Though neither of them are to be what they claim (Bob Dylan) [housing/fortune/fame]
• I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. (George Gordon Byron) [fortune]
• Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. (Ambrose Bierce) [fortune]
• Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. (Ambrose Bierce) [fortune/truth]
• A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. (Robert Emmet) [situation/fortune/power/memory]
• There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else. (Patrick Warburton) [fortune]
• You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't. (Patrick Warburton) [fortune/cartoons]

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