Fortunate Quotes - Page 28

• Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Stones, Far Away, Euclid

  "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)

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• I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

  Danica Patrick

  Running, Race, People

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• I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

  Mickey Kaus

  Bloggers

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• I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Careers, Littles, Augusta National

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• A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began to occupy me. By some fortunate coincidence of thought or circumstance I am attuned to the universe, I am fitted to hear, my being moves in a sphere of melody, my fancy and imagination are excited to an inconceivable degree. This is no longer the dull earth on which I stood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Moving, Garden

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking, World, Want

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• I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

  Spike Lee

  Kids, School, Eight

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.

  George Eastman

  Photography, Memories, Light

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• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  Walt Mossberg

  Art, Jobs, Technology

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• Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Way, Imagine, Fortune

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• The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kings, Home, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles E. Passage (1980). “Goethe's plays”, Frederick Ungar

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• We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dog, Voice, Long

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• Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

  Victor Hugo

  Luck, Fortune

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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• Cardiac depression is very powerful, it's very black, it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing - it was difficult at first - to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.

  Robby Benson

  Powerful, Heart, Dark

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• Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Crazy, People, Fake

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson: The Bemused Exasperation Expert". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2012.

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• No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Thinking, Self

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.127

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• We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

  Glenn Close

  Book, Survivor, Enough

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• Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

  Martial

  Men, Proud, Malice

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• I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Religious, Helping Others, People

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• Every year of my working life, I have been fortunate enough to earn more money than I have spent.

  Giles Andreae

  Years, Enough, More Money

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• There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.

  Zhuangzi

  Grateful, Opportunity, Ice

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• Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise no one could have deflected me from my path. ... The Chairman of the Physics Department, looking at this record, could only say 'That A- confirms that women do not do well at laboratory work'. But I was no longer a stubborn, determined child, but rather a stubborn, determined graduate student. The hard work and subtle discrimination were of no moment.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Mother, Children, Memories

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• Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are still blessed with heroes like those of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Man will continue his conquest of space. To reach out for new goals and ever-greater achievements, that is the way we shall commemorate our seven Challenger heroes.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hero, Blessed, Character

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• I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

  Tony Bennett

  Success, Ninety Nine, Careers

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• Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.

  David Dinkins

  Thinking, Lucky, Wells

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