The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. Benson
When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
A. E. Hotchner
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
A. E. Waite
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
A. J. Bowen
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
I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.
Adam McKay
The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.
Adhir Kalyan
In the crime fiction section, you may just find a novel that talks about the place where you're from and speaks to you about your life - or the life yours could have become if a little misfortune had come your way.
Adrian McKinty
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
Aeschylus
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.
Ajay Piramal
Hindi film industry's fortunes are directly connected to that of the world finance markets.
Akshaye Khanna
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Alain de Botton
I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.
Alan Bean
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
Alan Kay
Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little clerk.
Alessandra Mussolini
I was in a phase when I was obsessed - I still am - with fortunetellers and psychics.
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
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.
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
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.
I'm in this to change my life, to change my fortunes. I'm not in there to just fight for free.
I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.
I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Somewhere along the line, positive thinking seems to have been confused with magical thinking. There's a notion that if you think positively enough, you can make anything happen by using the power of your mind. All the positive thinking in the world won't deliver good fortune or prevent tragedy from striking.
I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.
Candidates are up one day, down the other. Candidates' fortunes turn on a dime. They can be determined by a good or bad debate performance.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.
I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.
Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.
I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.
I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
