Fate and Fortune Quotes

I have been a little lucky to get work. I know there are people who struggle a lot to get a film; I believe a lot in destiny. Things have fallen into place for me.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

He who is shipwrecked the second time, cannot lay the blame on Neptune

If you believe in astrology, I'm a Virgo, so I'm very controlling; I'm very neat, and I'm very organized.

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.

Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

The decision [to go to war] can only come from God, the God of battles, when He shall let fall from his hands the iron dice of destiny.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.