Fortunate Quotes - Page 16

• If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.

  L. Frank Baum

  Beautiful, Kansas, People

  L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Ned Halley (2009). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.35, Collector's Library

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• You’re a slave? (Eleni) I was. I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have come here. (Acheron) Take your cloak off and sit, Acheron. You’ve done nothing to apologize for. I admire you all the more for stopping to help us. It’s nothing for a nobleman to do so, yet they seldom bother to help those less fortunate. For a freedman to speak up in defense of another takes great courage and character. What you did is all the more noble and kind, and I would be honored to have you sit at my table with us. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Character, Would Be

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• Why do women want to dress like men when they're fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I'm very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don't want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error.

  Tasha Tudor

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Light, Flames, Forever

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• Escucha, oh gota, entrégate sin pesar, y a cambio gana el Océano. Escucha, oh gota, concédete este honor, y en los brazos del Mar estarás segura. ¿Quién puede ser tan afortunado? ¡Un Océano cortejando a una gota! En nombre de Dios, en nombre de Dios, ¡vende y compra de una vez! Da una gota, y toma este Mar lleno de perlas.

  Rumi

  Regret, Ocean, Sea

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.217, Shambhala Publications

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• Will: "Bonito lugar para vivir, ¿verdad? Esperemos que hayan dejado algo más que porquería. Direcciones de reenvío, unos cuantos miembros amputados, una prostituta o dos..." Jem: "En efecto. Quizá, si tenemos suerte, aún podamos pillar la sífilis". "O viruela demoníaca", sugirió Will alegremente, probando la puerta bajo las escaleras.

  Cassandra Clare

  Niza, Puertas, Dos

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• That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Taken, Book

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, p.1950, Penguin UK

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• If there is one regret that I have had in my life, it is that I never fathered any children. There are times, when I look at what Fergus and Beryl have produced, when I consider myself fortunate, but there are also times when it breaks my heart.

  Derek Landy

  Children, Regret, Heart

  Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• Nadie sabe que es afortunado hasta que se convierte en desafortunado, así es el mundo.

  Chaim Potok

  World, Way, Unfortunate

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• El amor en sí es lo que queda cuando el "estar enamorado" se ha consumido, y esto es tanto un arte como un afortunado accidente.

  Luis de Bernieres

  Sad Love, Art, Being In Love

  Louis De Bernieres (1994). “Corellis's Mandolin: A Novel”

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• Una persona menos afortunada que tú merece lo mejor que puedas dar. Por deber, honor y servicio. ¿Entiendes esas palabras? Debes hacer bien tu trabajo, y debes hacerlo bien, simplemente porque puedes, sin buscar notoriedad ni recompensa.

  Lee Child

  Empleo, Donación, Honor

  Lee Child (2015). "The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuasor, El enemigo, Un disparo, El camino difícil, Mala suerte y problemas, Nada que perder, Mañana se va", p.1381, Delacorte Press.

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• Cuando los problemas de la vida te parezcan abrumadores, mira a tu alrededor y observa a qué se enfrentan otras personas. Puede que te consideres afortunado.

  Ann Landers

  Vida, Motivacional, Enfermera

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• ¿Por qué creyeron? Porque vieron milagros. Cosas que un hombre tomó como casualidad, un hombre de fe las tomó como una señal. Un ser querido que se recuperaba de una enfermedad, un negocio afortunado, un encuentro casual con un amigo perdido hacía mucho tiempo. No eran las grandes doctrinas ni los grandes ideales los que parecían convertir a los hombres en creyentes. Era la simple magia del mundo que les rodeaba.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Creer, Hombres, Simple

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). "El Héroe de las Eras: Libro tercero de Mistborn", p.654, Macmillan

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• What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

  Roald Dahl

  Lovely, Fellows

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.82, Penguin

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• I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

  John Steinbeck

  Liars, Lying, Loss

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.67, Penguin

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• We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Party, Struggle, Book

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.225, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Hermoso, Verano, Recuerdos

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.1012, e-artnow

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• I must admit that I haven't heard of the Duchess of Erat before." "You're a fortunate man," Wolf said. "She's a great beauty," the man said admiringly. "And has a temper to match," Wolf told him. "I noticed that," the guard said. "We noticed you noticing," Silk told him slyly.

  David Eddings

  Men, Duchess, Said

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• We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

  David Grossman

  Escritura, Doe, Mundo

  David Grossman (2008). “Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics”, p.44, Macmillan

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• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). "Todos los caballos bonitos", p.244, Pan Macmillan.

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• Si [la animación dibujada a mano] es un oficio en extinción, no podemos hacer nada al respecto. La civilización avanza. ¿Dónde están ahora los pintores de frescos? ¿Dónde están los paisajistas? ¿Qué hacen ahora? El mundo está cambiando. He tenido la suerte de poder hacer el mismo trabajo durante 40 años. Eso es raro en cualquier época.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Empleo, Mudanza, Artista

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Perfect, Found

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• ...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Profound, Brain, Mosquitoes

  Nikolai Gogol (2015). “Dead Souls: [Illustrated]”, p.118, eKitap Projesi

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• In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Beautiful, Stupid, Good Luck

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.77, Macmillan

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• That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ocean, Guy, Trying

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