Quotes About Luck

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

Krampus reached over and wiggled one of the nails protruding from Jesse's leg. "Ow, fuck!" Jesse cried. "Watch it. Goddamn, what's wrong with you?" "You still live." "Yeah... I still live. Lucky me.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

From first to last the Army of the Potomac was unlucky. It fought for four years, and it took more killing, proportionately, than any army in American history, and its luck was always out; it did its level best and lost; when it won the victory was always clouded by a might-have-been, and when at last the triumph came at Appomattox there were so very, very many of its men who weren't there to see it.

He drew a map on a paper napkin. 'You'll see the house in some trees by a lake,' he said and wished me luck.

Luckily for parents, children have great resilience and a generous ability to forgive.

Success actually requires more than virtuosity. It calls for perseverance, marketing, attention to detail, and more than a little luck.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.

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encounter with Mike Eden that there really was more than one man in the world—the piece of knowledge that more than anything else divides women from girls. As long as there were two, there could be three, or ten; it was a question of good luck or God's blessing when she would

are you breathing, are you lucky enough to be breathing

Men—let one of them die, another live, however their luck may run. Let Zeus decide the fates of the men of Troy and men of Argos both, to his deathless heart's content—that is only right.

Perhaps the vetting committee was swayed by one of Ró?ycki père's good points. He was exceptionally lucky, which led his Polish friends to say of him, 'Bebenek could jump into the water stark naked, and still come up wearing a tuxedo.

With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Listening to him, I realized how long it had been since I'd felt like I had the world by the balls, how many quick birthdays had gone by since that first year in Europe when I was so ignorant and so confident that every splinter of luck made me feel like a roaring champion.

Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.

They were professionally deviant, but they had a few things in common. They depended, mostly from habit, on newspapers and magazines for the bulk of their income; their lives were geared to long chances and sudden movement; and they claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.

He Smiled. A great town, that Vegas. You'll have good luck there; you're they type. I know, I said. I'm a Triple Scorpio.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak are the unlucky, and the stupid.

Well, we're all young once, Prentice, and those that are lucky get to be old.

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.