Top 100 Fortunately Quotes
#1. According to polls, a majority (around 60+ percent) opposes the radar base. But it's not necessarily the sensible part of the Czech population. The demonstrations against the base are usually organized by communists, Islamists, and "peaceful feminists" (which is fortunately not a numerous group).
Lubos Motl
#2. For Baby, the marriage was a bad one, but it never entered her head that she might complain or refuse to marry Ram. . . . Fortunately, in her eyes what others might have considered an injustice, she considered a law of life.
Shiva Naipaul
#3. I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Larry Wall
#4. Fortunately, the Internet is a really angry place filled with really angry people, many of whom come positively unglued when not subject to the social consequences of face-to-face interaction.
Dave Tomar
#5. My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can't do that in my music, then I don't need it. Fortunately, I do feel like there is a movement against homophobia, and I hope to be part of that.
Billy Porter
#6. Radio ... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people ... who fortunately can't reach me.
Milton Berle
#7. Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown ...
Humphry Davy
#8. There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.
Paul Newman
#9. Winnicott also cites the hostile lullabies mothers sing to babies, who fortunately do not understand the words. For example: Rockabye, Baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all.
Irvin D. Yalom
#10. God didn't give eternal life to just a few of us. No way. Impossible. So there must be something really big in the way of us knowing what we are. Fortunately, it's just a liar :D
Niramisa Weiss
#11. Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
Vincente Minnelli
#12. Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their maps, we fear the presumed nothingness of no-self. Fortunately, there have been many spiritual circumnavigators who have returned to tell the tale of the beauty beyond self.
Kathleen Dowling Singh
#13. We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.
Valentino Rossi
#14. I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
Madonna Ciccone
#15. Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.
J.H. Wyman
#16. By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
Nikola Tesla
#18. Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
Landon Donovan
#19. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, we learn from our slips all the time, except some people!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. Intellectual talent will give us the upper-hand in the game of life. Fortunately, we all can develop it
Julian Pencilliah
#21. Fortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#22. Our ancestors relied upon their advanced brains to survive during times of food shortage, and fortunately, the human brain is able to utilize body fat as an extremely efficient fuel to sustain function when glucose-providing food is unavailable.
David Perlmutter
#23. Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.
Thomas H. Green
#24. I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.
Bonnie Raitt
#25. It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.
Louis Auchincloss
#26. Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#27. Most people put off my mother's erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything. To me that was just an excuse. I mean, brain surgeons can be crazy too, but no one says that's all right. Fortunately for my mother, I am alone in this opinion.
Sarah Dessen
#28. Fortunately, she understood the difference between biological attraction and lasting affection.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#29. Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.
Elizabeth Kenny
#30. My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.
Kailash Kher
#31. I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet.
Ann Leckie
#32. Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.
Cordell Hull
#33. They said 'if you have a 3D movie, we'll buy it' because they want it. For maybe two weeks I really thought of a silent, black and white 3D movie and I thought it could be great. I imagined it as a very special image, a very new image, but fortunately, I didn't have to do it.
Michel Hazanavicius
#34. Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us ... She had an ear for talent ... the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of ...
John Densmore
#35. This world is not a wonderful place where unfortunately many evil things happen; but this world is a terrible place where fortunately many miracles and other wonderful things happen.
C. JoyBell C.
#36. Fortunately, I had a believable, if utterly frivolous excuse for what we would have been doing out in Lafayette: There's this ice cream company called Jeni's? They're from Ohio?
Mira Grant
#37. My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#38. Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
Salman Rushdie
#39. Our journey was to be a great enterprise of balance. My father, of course, was bringing the Word of God - which fortunately weighs nothing at all.
Barbara Kingsolver
#40. I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
Carl Lewis
#41. Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion of one's time.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#42. I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
Tanya Tucker
#43. If she lost it, the whole house of cards could come tumbling down. Fortunately, she had no intention of losing it; it would take too damned long to find it again, and she didn't have that kind of time.
Tanya Huff
#44. Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through.
Ann Leckie
#45. I think there is something about L.A., fortunately: once you get one role people think, 'Oh well, someone employed her, so maybe we can.' I mean, that's my idea of it, anyway. 'She can put one foot in front of the other and say a line.'
Bella Heathcote
#46. Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#47. I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.
Paul Beatty
#48. I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.
Derek Jacobi
#49. Fortunately, as human history has shown, it is not unusual for good to come of evil, less is said about the evil that can come out of good
Jose Saramago
#50. That hat looks ridiculous."
"Fortunately, I can change hats," Wayne said, "while you, sir, are stuck with that face.
Brandon Sanderson
#51. I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.
James Patterson
#52. Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
Johann Most
#53. My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.
Roselyne Bosch
#54. You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the industry amplifies all that. Fortunately, I have a mother who encouraged me to build my confidence from within and embrace my imperfections.
Jurnee Smollett
#55. Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.
Milan Kundera
#56. I'm somebody who takes risks, for better or worse. Fortunately, most of them have been for the better!
Sharon Lawrence
#58. I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?
Katrina Kaif
#59. Fortunately, I'm very healthy, and my body is still intact. It hasn't aged very much, I feel like a very young 56. I exercise regularly, and when I do, I always learn new things about my body.
Steven Bauer
#60. I think what you have to do is have a box office success in every genre and then you're set for life. And fortunately, I happened to do that, so I get a myriad of offers of various sorts.
John Travolta
#61. I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.
Arundhati Roy
#62. Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.
Michael Gungor
#63. Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.
Adrian Tomine
#64. Everything's completely different, and it's been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I'm handling things pretty well.
Carrie Underwood
#65. I'm living the life that I wanted to live and I'm loving every little thing that I do. Fortunately, I have had a very, very charmed life. Wherever I've been, that's what I wanted to be doing, right then.
Tarsem Singh
#66. I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.
Alber Elbaz
#67. Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
Steven Pressfield
#68. Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.
Dwight Yoakam
#69. I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.
Derek Jacobi
#70. Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.
Kevin Spacey
#71. Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
David Bailey
#72. Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.
Ryan Seacrest
#73. How can you possibly overcome your fears, doubts, worries and other problems? You can't. You simply don't have the capacity. Fortunately, the infinite can do all of these things for you. How? Because it is lacking in nothing.
Frederick Lenz
#74. Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
Myrtle Reed
#75. In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.
Lev L. Spiro
#76. I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.
Jonathan Frakes
#77. Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar.
Israelmore Ayivor
#78. Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#79. But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
Arne Jacobsen
#80. My mind wanders a lot, but fortunately it's too weak to go very far.
Bob Thaves
#81. Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.
Tom DeLay
#82. Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.
Condoleezza Rice
#83. There's different levels of where we do well throughout Europe. Fortunately, for us, it's pretty great all throughout it.
John Petrucci
#84. Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
Zig Ziglar
#85. Well, I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.
Blake Edwards
#86. A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
Bill Gates
#87. Fortunately the train was not very full, and the corridor immediately outside their carriage was deserted, or somebody might have had a very interesting demonstration of how to kiss a woman who had refused for months to be kissed.
Ruby M. Ayres
#88. I don't have the time, skill level, or experience to date one guy, let alone two. Fortunately, there's more to life than boys. How about we focus on something other than me finding a mate?
D.R. Graham
#89. basis, you may find that it is affecting your daily life because you simply don't get things done. Fortunately, there are a number of habits that you can introduce into your life to stop procrastination. Some of them
Sam Davis
#90. The Ottoman Empire ... The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much - were mostly interested in robbing them - and they left them alone to run their own affairs ... with a lot of local self determination.
Noam Chomsky
#91. I'm fortunately not, like, typecast. I don't have to just do one kind of thing; I can do all kinds of things that reflect different parts of me.
Spike Jonze
#92. Fortunately we've been shooting in North Carolina which means we're not in LA where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business.
Katie Holmes
#93. Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.
Imelda Staunton
#94. I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#95. Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
Anita Hill
#96. Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
Tamara Tunie
#97. Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.
Lucille Kallen
#98. My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain
#99. Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.
Lewis H. Lapham
#100. How . . ." Dalinar said. "You fell into a chasm!"
"I fell face-first, sir," Kaladin said, "and fortunately, I'm particularly hard-headed.
Brandon Sanderson
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