Quotes with fortunate

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  • Carl Lewis M so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bob Barker Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
    Bob Barker
    American television game show host (1923 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Solon No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
    Solon
    Greek statesman (638 - 558)
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  • Arthur Godfrey Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Pliny the Elder Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • August Strindberg Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real ''horror vacuum.''
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Croesus There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
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  • Pierre Corneille We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Barney Ross We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Carly Fiorina Well, first, if I am fortunate enough to be elected to the U.S. Senate, it won't be a party that will have elected me. It will be the people of California.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Billy Ray Cyrus Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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  • Ben E. King Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Bill Paxton You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bob Cousy You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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