#fortune

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him! ↗

— George Kennedy

#am #anyway #argue #been #brilliant

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#broken #confidence #hungary #i #i believe

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. ↗

— Thucydides

#brilliant #charge #expect #frequently #men

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democracy #exist #form #fortunes #great

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. ↗

— Vincent Voiture

#deceiver #fortune #give #great #seems

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ↗

— Voltaire

#greater #harm #i #know #life

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#elect #especially #everybody #fortune #going

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#been #best #clergyman #earnest #effect

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. ↗

— Robert Welch

#fortune #good #good fortune #imposed #indeed

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture. ↗

— Loretta Young

#good #impossible #made #misfortune #posture