Quotes About Luck

It's always pretty cool to hit a card on the river, especially when you're lucky enough to do it two days in a row. But good fortune doesn't last forever.

In life, I have been a very lucky person; I have had a good married life, good friends, though I am not as educated as I would have liked to be.

I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: 'Good luck, good luck, good luck - Mama.'

I've had a lot more good luck than bad, and I've made a lot more good pictures than bad ones, and I'm pretty happy with what I have. I don't walk around regretting too many things.

My mother used to play cards with King Farouk. He believed she brought good luck to him - she was his mascot.

I've never gone around looking for roles. It has been my good luck that all the films that I have done, the filmmakers have approached me.

I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.

When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

There are so many different factors - luck, being in good shape when it matters, the draw. For these reasons, it's hard to win a European Cup.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

No victor believes in chance.

I sometimes think that what civilized serenity the British people possess, and small but real ability to smile at themselves, is chiefly due to their good luck in having had William Shakespeare born one of their company.

Suppose you applied this principle outside bridge? Suppose that coincidence and other chance happenings weren't really as chancy as they looked? Suppose there were individuals with a special aptitude for calling the turns, making the breaks? But that was a pretty obvious idea—nothing to give a person the shiver it had given him.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

life was more like a game of Snakes and Ladders than a straight line.

I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins or losses. I used to stand on a certain piece of rug if my brothers and husband were watching football and their team got in trouble - but now the luck went out of that rug. If a circle is involved, I try to go clockwise.

Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.

So I never forget how lucky I am. That's the reason above all else why I'm determined to keep enjoying cricket, whatever the wins or the losses. As long as I do that then the runs will come.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany. But I knew I was lucky before that, so it's not like I suddenly realised how lucky I am.