Alexandra Fuller Quotes

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Luck plays an important role in Bollywood. We all work really hard to earn success but our luck has to be on the right side, especially from where I come from.

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.

I liked that line in the movie 'Shakespeare in Love': 'How is this going to work out? I don't know, but it always does.'

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.