Quotes About Luck

Because it all ties together. When I grew up, I realized how lucky I'd been. I got serious. I studied. I went to college, then medical school. I specialized in replantation.

and they fished and fished for hours, taking turns, but neither of them knew how to fish, or maybe they were just unlucky, and though they felt nibbles, they caught nothing, and it was as though they were merely feeding their bread to the insatiable brine

Han reached into his jacket pocket and produced his two lucky golden dice attached by a chain.

When a coin is minted, the devil kisses it.

Oh poor Octave, no luck at all, as usual, said Madame Rocher, he is still with his regiment, still only a captain. Of course, if it hadn't been for this wretched war, he would be at least a colonel by now.

How lucky I am! I could never have loved anybody else half as much.''I know.''Still, I wish you wouldn't say "I know" like that. You might say that you're lucky too.''I'm awfully nice,' he answered, 'never could you have found anybody as nice as I am.

Life is a gamble and sometimes when you gamble you win.

Well, luck is nothing to sneeze at, either; we would not get very far if luck were against us

I suppose I should've felt sorry for her, but I'd rather be sorry for someone who never had luck at all than for someone whose extreme luck ran out unexpectedly.

You would never Envy if you would but realize the Accumulated Power that comes by profiting from the Success of other people. Be glad of the Big Luck of somebody else. Be wise enough to let its Inspiration lift you up.

I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

Sometimes, when the gods aren't looking and destiny loses its way, even good people get a taste of good luck in their lives.

Kadkad vjerujemo da su osobe sedmice na lutriji: da postoje da bi ostvarile nase besmislene iluzije.

A végzetünk többnyire az utcasarkon hever. Egy darab kutyaszar, egy lotyó vagy egy lottóárus... a szerencse három leggyakoribb megtestesülési formája. Egy biztos: soha nem megy házhoz. Nekünk kell érte mennünk!

Kolo sre?e po?elo se okretati, ali ovaj put on nije bacio kockice.

The heart is an organ that pumps blood, not sonnets. With a bit of luck some of that circulation reaches the brain, but on the whole it ends up in the gut and, in your case, in the loins—which, if you're not careful, will take over your brain.

A veces, cuando los dioses no miran y el destino se pierde por el camino, incluso la buena gente tiene un poco de suerte en la vida.

A veces creemos que las personas décimos de lotería: que están ahí para hacer realidad nuestras ilusiones absurdas

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits.

Coincidences don't get questioned. That's why they are coincidences. ~ Daniel Sempere in The Labyrinth of the Spirits

El destino siempre está a la vuelta de la esquina. Y si algún día decide usted ir a por él (porque lo que el destino no hace son visitas a domicilio), ya verá como le concederá una segunda oportunidad.

A man didn't make mistakes. He made choices. Bad once stayed with him for a long time, but with a little luck and a lot of hard work, hopefully not forever. With planning and diligence, he could make amends.

I remember that I did feel, starting my mini-tour, the resident anxiety you develop when you know you've been too lucky; at any moment, maybe next Tuesday afternoon, I would be stricken with something unbearable.