#fortune

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad. ↗

— Roman Payne

#cities-and-countries #devotion #fickle #fortune #heart

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.... ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

#publishing #writing #money

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune. ↗

— George Eliot

#nature

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#empty #far #favors #form #fortune

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep. ↗

— Michael Apted

#asleep #bbc #crying #firmly #fortune

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #angel #cloud #every #face

Fortune is either with you or it's not. ↗

— Tom Araya

#fortune #you

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#behind #crime #every #fortune #lies

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#his #man #misfortune #mother #wife

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

#am #doing #drove #enjoy #fame