Fortunes Quotes

“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old woman might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea;”
― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

“Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

“Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Justine hated pantsuits. Whenever she saw one, she had an urge to tell the owner some scandalous fortune, loudly enough to be heard everywhere: 'The father of your next-to-last baby has run off with a cigar-smoking redhead.”
― Anne Tyler, Searching for Caleb

“One is for ever hearing of persons who have lost their fortunes at gaming, but one never hears of anyone who has won a fortune. It seems very odd to me. Where do all the lost fortunes go to?”
― Georgette Heyer, False Colours

“If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed.”
― Tom Althouse

“Those who broadcast your messy failures are the same people who will telecast your mass fortunes. But this can only happen when you accept your responsibility to turn your life around!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Life holds timeless fortunes for you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“but to succeed we must commit to it, we must believe that it is the thing for us, it is where our happiness and fortune lies.”
― Kio Briggs, Living Free: The High Philosophy

“I see a bird like a cock, which means good news, but you yourself are very agitated. A road that looks bright. And you are on the first step. You are thinking of a hundred things at the same time. One road is closed and dark, and the other is open and full of light. Both could happen; it is your choice. There is a key; a problem will be solved. ... A small ship that is still in the harbor and has not yet started to set sail.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Nine-tenths of the great fortunes made in the United States are (as Henry George has shown in his Social Problems) the result of knavery on a large scale, assisted by the state.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings

“Back in Zürich; a realm where the intricate machinery of global finance hums, where deals are struck, and fortunes rise and fall with the ebb and flow of international markets.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Days