Aeschylus
Aeschylus

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Alan Bean
Alan Bean

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.

Amar Bose
Amar Bose

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Amy Morin
Amy Morin

Somewhere along the line, positive thinking seems to have been confused with magical thinking. There's a notion that if you think positively enough, you can make anything happen by using the power of your mind. All the positive thinking in the world won't deliver good fortune or prevent tragedy from striking.

Andre Dubus III
Andre Dubus III

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli

I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.

Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel

At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.

Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton

I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.

Ann Dowd
Ann Dowd

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.