We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
Sidney Altman

We are very fortunate to live in this country, but at the same time, the reason the forces are so much more destructive here is because they are faceless.
Brandon Boyd

We have indeed been fortunate in this country. Over the last 200 some odd years since our Nation was founded, rarely have there been attacks upon our homeland.
Virgil Goode

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry.
James R. Thompson

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.
Payne Stewart

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
Aeschylus

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.
Meriwether Lewis

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.
Glenn Close

We were fortunate to be there a day or two before "the big bang" and then we got the heck out of town.
Scotty Moore

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
Kary Mullis

We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
Barney Ross

We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.
Cynthia Weil

We're real fortunate to have such a unique cast.
Christopher Meloni

We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have.
Tim McGraw

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.
Condoleezza Rice

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.
Mitch Kapor

Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.
David Dinkins

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