Fortunate Quotes - Page 24

• As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

  Cobi Jones

  Exercise, Player, Careers

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• For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

  Herman Kahn

  Opportunity, People, Growth

  Herman Kahn, William Morle Brown, Léon Martel (1976). “The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world”, William Morrow & Company

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• I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

  Rick Mercer

  Night, Bed, Tomorrow

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

  Duane G. Carey

  Careers, Timing

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• To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

  Minna Antrim

  Love, Achieve, Distinction

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• I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

  Raul Labrador

  Citizens, Birth, Enough

  "CPAC: Raul Labrador Birther Joke Draws Laughs" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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• I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system. I think at 27 it is much easier for me to look at life and appreciate what I have rather than stressing about the little things day to day.

  Meryl Davis

  Stress, Thinking, Years

  "Meryl Davis Talks Role Models, Charlie White And Her Perfect Day Off". Interview with Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2014.

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• To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!

  Spider Robinson

  Too Late, May, Fool

  "The Callahan Chronicals". Book by Spider Robinson, 1997.

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• We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made in the last hundred years have been far more significant than the space program, nuclear fission, or even The Wire, for so many fortunate people.

  Rob Delaney

  Years, Space, People

  Rob Delaney (2013). “Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

  John Prebble

  Men, Engineering, Approval

  John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

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• The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the soul the slave of the body. And on the contrary, one who does not spare the body will not be disturbed in whatever he does by apprehensions born of blind love of life. How fortunate is one who is trained to this from childhood!

  Theophan the Recluse

  Love Life, Evil, Childhood

  "Raising Them Right: A Saint's Advice on Raising Children".

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• In between the Queen and the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, sat Tony Richardson, looking very calm. Later on it emerged that this was because, having not been apprised of the placement until he was about to sit down, he had died of fright. To have expired was to be fortunate.

  Clive James

  Queens, America, World

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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• It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (1921). “Glimpses of Bengal: Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895”

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• I have a lot of friends who get up most mornings and go to jobs they absolutely hate. I don't think that's what life is about and I'm so fortunate that I actually love what I do.

  Jerry Herman

  Morning, Jobs, Hate

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• All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

  Willard Gaylin

  Independence, Finals, Libertarian

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• Money is a symbol of that life force, of its appreciation. Money can be a solidified form of love. Through the transfer of money, we facilitate love and communication with other humans. It offers us a simple system of providing for and loving and nurturing ourselves, and it is one way of expressing generosity and kindness for the less fortunate.

  Stuart Wilde

  Love, Appreciation, Kindness

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• All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Men, Forever

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• You always miss a great player, but I think the players on this team have taken a lot of pride in overcoming obstatcles when we have a player down ? not only the offensive players, but the defensive players. We were very fortunate that we played that well.

  Bobby Petrino

  Team, Taken, Pride

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• I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

  Willie Wilson

  Sports, Baseball, Team

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• As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

  Rene Cassin

  War, Honor, Trying

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• There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

  Croesus

  Men, Wheels, Affair

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• I feel very fortunate to go surrounded by love. I'm proud of the life I lived.

  Brittany Maynard

  Emotional, Proud, Feels

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• I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about.

  Katie Couric

  Couple, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

  Isabel Paterson

  Betrayal, Men, Race

  "The God of the Machine" by Isabel Paterson, (p. 292), 1943.

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• Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Escaping, Bedtime, Principal

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