Quotes About Luck

This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

Some people get dealt all the aces in life.

I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.

I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I'm a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. I chose to investigate blackjack. As a result, chance offered me a new set of unexpected opportunities.

With time, lucky managers tend to fade.

For the second time, the Ten-Count System had shown moderately heavy losses mixed with "lucky" streaks of the most dazzling brilliance. I learned later that this was a characteristic of a random series of favorable bets. And I would see it again and again in real life in both the gambling and the investment worlds.

The origin of modern humanity was a stroke of luck—good for our species for a while, bad for most of the rest of life forever. All

"God be good to the man," she said. "He was mean as a panther, but good luck to him."

I believe they think you some sort of a magnet for bad luck. As long as it attaches itself to you, it stays away from them.

Success requires not the previous preparation since it depends on luck and insight, and that both are timeless; thus, such planning can't be a guarantee and warranty for success.

Still, in a fight like that, you never know. There's a superhuman element involved. All warriors have to face it; winning or losing is partly a matter of luck.

She's lucky to be so loved, to love. Lucky to be adored for what she is and for what she invents. Now that she's given her brother what he wanted, now that she's taken him out of danger, surely she'll invent something else. So I don't want to lose sight of her. Something will happen.

Yes, it's Lila who makes writing difficult. My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck.

Others haven't had the same luck. In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence that reaches into our cities and our habits we're startled, we're alarmed.

she must wait, till someone takes her, but afterwards, and then let herself be taken, but only afterwards. because if, like you, she lets herself be taken before, then she can count herself lucky afterwards, if anyone takes her at all.

That had been the worst part of childhood: people telling you how lucky you were to live in a carefree time with no responsibilities

How confident the other people in the class seemed to be in the rights that had been conferred on them by being there first—which was really only a matter of luck, because their aunts hadn't happened to call just then. Where, exactly, did they want me to go? Did they want me to just not exist? Was that how the Israelis and Palestinians felt about each other?

In the end it had all been too simple, too easy. But I feared my good fortune.

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.