Fortunate Quotes - Page 16

• If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.

  L. Frank Baum

  Beautiful, Kansas, People

  L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Ned Halley (2009). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.35, Collector's Library

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• You’re a slave? (Eleni) I was. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have come here. (Acheron) Take your cloak off and sit, Acheron. You’ve done nothing to apologize for. I admire you all the more for stopping to help us. It’s nothing for a nobleman to do so, yet they seldom bother to help those less fortunate. For a freedman to speak up in defense of another takes great courage and character. What you did is all the more noble and kind, and I would be honored to have you sit at my table with us. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Character, Would Be

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• Why do women want to dress like men when they're fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I'm very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don't want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error.

  Tasha Tudor

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Light, Flames, Forever

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• Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.

  Rumi

  Regret, Ocean, Sea

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.217, Shambhala Publications

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• Will: "Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or two ..." Jem: "Indeed. Perhaps, if we're fortunate, we can still catch syphilis." "Or demon pox," Will suggested cheerfully, trying the door under the stairs.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Doors, Two

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• That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Taken, Book

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, p.1950, Penguin UK

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• If there is one regret that I have had in my life, it is that I never fathered any children. There are times, when I look at what Fergus and Beryl have produced, when I consider myself fortunate, but there are also times when it breaks my heart.

  Derek Landy

  Children, Regret, Heart

  Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

  Chaim Potok

  World, Way, Unfortunate

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Sad Love, Art, Being In Love

  Louis De Bernieres (1994). “Corellis's Mandolin: A Novel”

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• A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

  Lee Child

  Jobs, Giving, Honor

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow”, p.1381, Delacorte Press

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• When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

  Ann Landers

  Life, Motivational, Nurse

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• Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Men, Simple

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.654, Macmillan

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• What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

  Roald Dahl

  Lovely, Fellows

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.82, Penguin

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• I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

  John Steinbeck

  Liars, Lying, Loss

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.67, Penguin

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• We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Party, Struggle, Book

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.225, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Summer, Memories

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.1012, e-artnow

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• I must admit that I haven't heard of the Duchess of Erat before." "You're a fortunate man," Wolf said. "She's a great beauty," the man said admiringly. "And has a temper to match," Wolf told him. "I noticed that," the guard said. "We noticed you noticing," Silk told him slyly.

  David Eddings

  Men, Duchess, Said

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• We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Doe, World

  David Grossman (2008). “Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics”, p.44, Macmillan

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• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Jobs, Moving, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Perfect, Found

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• ...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Profound, Brain, Mosquitoes

  Nikolai Gogol (2015). “Dead Souls: [Illustrated]”, p.118, eKitap Projesi

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• In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Beautiful, Stupid, Good Luck

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.77, Macmillan

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• That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ocean, Guy, Trying

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