Quotes of Fortunately - somelinesforyou

“ Fortunately, I'm in a perfect position for me. I'm able to work, have a wonderful time, and I'm not really a celebrity, and that's great. ”

- Laura Linney

“ In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority. ”

- Dick Cheney

“ Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ Fortunately art is a community effort -a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. ”

- Eric Gill

“ If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders ”

- Barbara Ehrenreich

“ You have to hole the putts when they count. Fortunately for me, I got the killer blow in at the right time. It's a case of driving the nail in when you have to. ”

- Lee Westwood

“ The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. ”

- Sophocles

“ The flower of the present rosily blossomed. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. ”

- Russell Baker

“ Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. ”

- Luis Bunuel

“ Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ”

- Karen Horney

“ Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it. ”

- Shere Hite

“ Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. ”

- Eustace Haydon

“ Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future. ”

- Gelsey Kirkland

“ Fortunately art is a community effort — a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. ”

- Allen Ginsberg

“ She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault. ”

- Henry James

“ I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them. ”

- Joan Rivers

“ Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. ”

- Karen Horney

“ Fortunately is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ”

- Karen Horney

“ The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business. ”

- Luis Figo

“ If I play my cards right, I could bring network wrestling back to TV. Unfortunately, to most people, wrestling is a laughingstock. But fortunately, I'm reaching people who otherwise wouldn't watch it. ”

- Andy Kaufman

“ You know that I try to maintain a continuous conversation with you. I take comfort in the thought that the important thing is not for one person to write to Christ but for many people to love and emulate you. Fortunately, despite everything, this still occurs today. ”

- Pope John Paul I

“ 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

“ It is the absence of immediate and compelling goals that leads to boredom, low energy, pessimism, depression and despair, among a heap of other unpleasant conditions. The worst affliction in life is neither pain, nor poverty, nor misfortune, nor the perfidy of others, because all of these have been met and defeated by those with a determination to do so… ”

- Joe Klock

“ Very fortunately, man is also gifted with a sense of humor, whose function, as I conceive it, is to exercise criticism of man's dreams, and bring them in touch with the world of reality. It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams. ”

- Lin Yutang

“ I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized… ”

- Bruce Lee

“ Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today… ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ I caused my husband's heart attack. In the middle of lovemaking I took the paper bag off my head. He dropped the Polaroid and keeled over and so did the hooker. It would have taken me half an hour to untie myself and call the paramedics, but fortunately the Great Dane could dial. ”

- Joan Rivers
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