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Quotes About Adversity

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
the best people have the rottenest luck
~ Rick Riordan
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
~ Doris Lessing
…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck
~ Rachel Vincent
Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.
~ Dana Gould
Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
~ Aphra Behn
To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.
~ Twyla Tharp
Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
~ Jeannette Walls
Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.
~ John Steinbeck
I still have horrible luck with girls.
~ Jonathan Bennett
...but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but, only few of them have opportunities to follow them.
~ Kartik Mehta
I felt less like Cinderella and more like used drywall. Perpetually screwed.
~ Sonya Bateman, Master of None
Behind bad luck comes good luck.
~ Gipsy Proverb
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
~ Anonymous
Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.
~ James Russell Lowell
If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.
~ William McFee
Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
~ Frank Wedekind
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.
~ Dan Jenkins
Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'
~ Jane Smiley
This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.
~ Shelley Fabares