Quotes About Luck

Not dreams but night changes, not destiny but path changes, always keep your hopes alive, luck may or may not change, but time definitely chages.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

I have now reached the stage that I don't care much whether I live or die. The world will still keep turning without me; what is going to happen, will happen, and anyway it's no good to resist. I will trust luck and do nothing but work, hoping that all will end well.

Only the quick-fingered, the strong and the lucky reached adulthood. Monk could not afford to indulge in judgment

In a flash I saw the boy in the man's eyes. Only it could not be true. I could not have such luck. For the boy had beauty as bountiful as Bianca's. I did not count upon it.

If you never fail, either you're really lucky or you haven't shipped anything.

while luck may be more appealing than effort, you don't get to choose luck. Effort, on the other hand, is totally available, all the time.

As Susan Kare, designer of the original Mac interface, said, "You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

Love is a tremendous gift… a gift and a burden. Marriage especially is more than just hope and luck and a handshake. Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention. It will push you and bend you and test you, and if you're not prepared for any of that, it will shatter you.

Because love is a tremendous gift, Maddy. A gift and a burden. Marriage especially is more than just hope and luck and a handshake. Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention. It will push you and bend you and test you, and if you're not prepared for any of that, it will shatter you. I imagine the colonel could tell you something about what that's like.

Because love is a tremendous gift, Maddy. A gift and a burden. Marriage especially is more than just hope and luck and a handshake. Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention.

Your luck is about to change, Abby.' His voice was low and velvety. 'I know a lot about you. I know how to get into your apartment. How to turn your cat into a noodle. The magnets on your fridge, the view from your window. Your perfume. I could find you blindfolded in a room full of strangers.' His fingers penetrated the veil of her hair, his forefinger stroking the back of her neck with controlled gentleness. 'And I learn fast. Give me ten minutes, and I'd know lots more.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

It wasn't a question of luck, the way some folks will tell you; they will tell you it's back luck to be near the wounded. It was just that we didn't want to be close to them any longer than it took to run past, the way you wouldn't want to be near someone who had something catching, like smallpox

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.   —LEONARD COHEN

Shit, he said. I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a war. You're lucky. Shit, all you had was that damn Desert Storm. Should have called it Dessert Storm because it just made the fat cats get fatter. It was all sugar and whipped cream with a cherry on top. And besides that, you didn't even have to fight in it. All you lost during that was was sleep because you stayed up all night watching CNN.

My kingdom for a gun. (Geary) You don't have a kingdom. (Brian) And I don't have a gun- looks like I'm shit out of luck all the way around, huh? (Geary)

You have a lot of faith in luck, don't you? (Shahara) Not at all. She's a vicious bitch who seldom knocks on my door. (Syn)

Any idea how to get my brother out of there? (Phobos) Dynamite. With any luck it might blow the bastard up, too. (Jericho)

Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter and an immortal handmaiden to a goddess had a decidedly unfair advantage over Cassandra and Chris. In Life, the only thing that mattered was luck.' (Cassandra)