Fortunae Quotes

#1. I was actually on two reality shows, which is crazy. Just to think that, out there, there was some guy, like flipping through the channels, being like, 'Hey, I 69'd her on a cruise ship.

Amy Schumer

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

Juvenal

#3. Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#4. Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Appius Claudius Caecus

#5. For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

Dan Deacon

#6. The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me.
[Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.]

Ovid

#7. We can be assured of salvation and feel that assurance aright only as we keep our eyes off ourselves and our performance and fix our gaze on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of true saving and sanctifying faith.

Douglas Bond

#8. Sin is too big to be handled alone.

Johnny Hunt

#9. I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

Michel Foucault

#10. the wages of empire is myopia

Natasha Trethewey

#11. I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

Alan Greenspan

#12. Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

Plautus

#13. Finally I looked to the cold, white sky and prayed to a God I wasn't sure I believed in to heal the girl I loved.

C. Desir

#14. The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

James Geary

#15. In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Boethius

#16. I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.

Nikola Tesla

#17. Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

Andy Warhol

#18. When you know how to make money, you're obligated to.

Marshall Sylver