Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

Camille Pissarro

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

Carl Jung

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Helio Castroneves

Wow, I don't even know what to say. Those final ten laps were the hardest in my life. The race reminded me a lot of 2002 when I won my second Indianapolis 500 -- to be able to win the first time in a touring car is just an amazing feeling. I'm so fortunate to have had this opportunity and to have been able to compete with three wonderful drivers. We had a great team and a fantastic car. I just consider myself lucky to have been in the right place at the right time.

We're still fortunate to have low gas prices compared to the rest of the world,

We're seeing a lot of Fortune 200 companies that are coming to Silicon Valley looking to find innovative companies.

We've very fortunate that this current storm system is going to deliver its precipitation north of there.

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Elizabeth Taylor

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.

Arthur Helps

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Ashley Johnson

I've been very fortunate in my career.

Brian Tracy

One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.

Brian Tracy

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."

James Van Der Beek

You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me,

Juvenal

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Juvenal

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

Juvenal

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

Juvenal

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Kirsten Gillibrand

It's time to focus on real solutions that will create jobs and build our economy for real strength and stability - not just for the fortunate few, but for every American.

Kenneth Cranham

I feel at home in Scotland and go back whenever I can. I've played the Edinburgh Festival twice, and I get the train across the Forth Bridge to Lochgelly, just to see it.

Kent Conrad

When you're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that you spend, that can't continue much longer. I think everybody really does understand that, and it's going to require all of us - those who are the most fortunate among us - but it's really going to require every American to contribute to a solution.

Jose Rizal

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

Larry Fitzgerald

I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.

Larry Fitzgerald

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.

Kirk Hammett

I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.

Eric Schmidt

Google's architectural model around broadband and services and so forth plays very well to the powerful devices and services Apple is doing. We're a perfect back end to the problems that they're trying to solve.

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

Erin Morgenstern

I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write.

Charles Schwab

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwab

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

Jeremy Clarkson

I have had an amazingly fortunate life. I'm a child from Yorkshire, which is sort of like Cleveland without the pretty bits.

John Elway

I think I'm lucky in life and not just in football. I was very fortunate to play for a great organization and a great team that was really good near the end of my career.

Lou Boudreau

Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.