Wheel Of Fortune Quotes

• Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Thug Life, Wheels

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• The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

  Confucius

  Fate, Today, Wheels

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• The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round.

  Josephine Pollard

  Down And, Wheels, Stills

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• His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dust, May, Wheels

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• The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

  Philippa Gregory

  Victory, Triumph, Want

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.

  Lil' Kim

  Philosophy, Vowels, Wheels

  Song: Who's Number One?, Album: The Notorious K.I.M.

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• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
  chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

  Truman Capote

  Years, Games, Play

  1965 In Cold Blood, ch.4.

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• Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Feet, Wheels, Virtue

  Benvenuto Cellini (2010). “The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XXXI (in 51 Volumes)”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

  Richelle Mead

  Treasure, Loses, Values

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.561, Penguin

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• Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  May, Evening, Wheels

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Historia, XXVI. 8, 1922.

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• She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Change, Dream

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Mean, Sleep

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.404

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• Wheel of Fortune was an important SAT prep for me.

  Mo Rocca

  Important, Wheels, Fortune

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• Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can." She pointed to the Wheel of Fortune card. "The wheel is turning, always turning.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Expression, Treasure

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.476, Penguin

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• In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Play, Triumph

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Games, Wheels, Fortune

  "Actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani answers our 11 questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Patriotic, Heart

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• Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Men, Circles, Feet

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2012). “The Best Tales of Hoffmann”, p.365, Courier Corporation

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• My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of Fortune for that.

  Roseanne Barr

  Husband, Thinking, Wheels

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Country, War

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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• North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Korea, Time Zones

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• I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

  Roland Gift

  Self Worth, Wheels, Records

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• Merv Griffin, who developed Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, had a great line once. I used to personally answer all the mail that came in to Jeopardy! whether it was favorable or unfavorable, and Merv said, You know how I handle the nasty mail? I said no. He just grabbed it and folded it up and crunched it up and threw it in the wastebasket. He said, I don't bother with it.

  Alex Trebek

  Answers, Lines, Mail

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• Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Money, Waiting, Looks

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• I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'

  Martha MacIsaac

  Night, Wheels, Watches

  "Talking About Dysfunctional Families with Martha MacIsaac". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. January 8, 2013.

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