Quotes About Luck

Frattanto, possiamo ringraziare la nostra buona stella che, per qualche ora, ci ha sottratto alla insopportabile fatica dell'ozio.»

Well, I was never in luck's way long.

Fate shuffles the cards and we play.

A solidão é a sorte de todos os espíritos excepcionais.

El azar reparte las cartas pero nosotros las jugamos.

We're always trotting out some story of a ninety-seven-year-old who runs marathons, as if such cases were not miracles of biological luck but reasonable expectations for all. Then, when our bodies fail to live up to this fantasy, we feel as if we somehow have something to apologize for.

I managed to find exactly one scientific study assessing whether or not luck actually does go bad on Friday the thirteenth.

Such successes are not quite the result of logical thinking. But they are not the result of mere luck, either.

We're always trotting out some story of a ninety-seven-year-old who runs marathons, as if such cases were not miracles of biological luck but reasonable expectations for all. Then, when our bodies fail to live up to this fantasy, we feel as if we somehow have something to apologize for.

Baseball players, for example, are notoriously superstitious.

Yes, you and the Baptists have found the only true faith. You are indeed lucky!

Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it.

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.

Somehow, through a flip of the coin, I ended up here. Feeling like somebody at the top of the heart-lung transplant recipient list. Damaged but invigorated and fucking lucky.

Doc Webster's eyes rolled briefly, like loaded dice, and came up snake eyes.

Bob says that when you're alone, and you light a cigarette, and the cigarette is only half way lit that means someone is thinking about you. He also says that when you find a penny, it's only lucky if it's heads-up. He says the best thing to do is find a lucky penny when you're with someone and give the other person goodluck ".

Lucky hard-ons are bio-degradable, I thought, because I was throwing a lot them away.

There is no such thing as luck. If you think you're lucky and that'll carry you through, you're living on borrowed time.

To a certain extent," he explained, "a man must merely believe in his luck and figure that a certain amount of good fortune will bless us when the critical day arrives."30 Throughout the war Eisenhower trusted in his luck along with his preparations, and it never failed him.

It's like winning a lottery. Although the odds are astronomical, most weeks, someone hits the jackpot.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.