Fortunes Quotes

You've got to do better than that. If you are going to change the fortunes of your ball club, you've got to be able to beat these guys. - Jim Tracy

You have continual suspense, unfolding letter by letter. You have all these ups and downs in your characters' fortunes. Success or failure is only seconds away, and it's in their own hands. You have character and action built right in. - Rachel Sheinkin

Without going back to individual seasons, you'd have a hard time finding so many major things happening to one club other than this year. It's like, 'Wow, what else could go wrong?' I think it really wears on a team that's pretty sensitive. I don't think their reversal of fortunes was 100 percent related to that, but it had an impact, no question about that. - Buck Martinez

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. - Pliny The Elder

Wishing you and those you love all the good fortunes of life, health, happiness and peace throughout the New Year. - Unknown

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? - James Madison

What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown. - Francis Quarles