Quotes About Luck

Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.

Remember, makeing your dream come true can take years, so don't give up the day job. Do pray for a lucky break.

We do not shoot craps with human teeth.

El dinero no es fácil de encontrar, Victorita lo sabe muy bien. Hace falta suerte. Todo lo demás lo puede poner uno de su parte, pero la suerte no.

Las personas son tan imprevisibles que en ocasiones incluso a mí se me hace difícil manipularlas. A veces conviene dejarles algo de libertad para que actúen según su lamentable criterio. Con un poco de suerte, acaban empeorando bastante las cosas.

Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was.

She believes in saints. I believe in accidents. I think we basically believe in the same thing.

I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that

To say I didn't have great luck in the guy department was like saying Ryan Seacrest didn't have great luck in the height department: total understatement.

Are you going to suggest I kiss you for good luck or strength or whatever it is your sex demon needs?" - William That earned the warrior a two-fingered salute. "So that's a no?" William asked. Paris worked his jaw. "Here, let me help you off the cliff to the drawbridge." With no more warning, he shoved William over the ledge. He thought he heard a fading, "So not cool," from the bastard as he fell...fell.. Splat. Paris worked

If you don't get yourself killed tonight, it'll be because of a miracle." he said. "Good thing my middle name is Miracle.

Maybe in our next life, fate will be kinder, eh?

while there may have been gods, they weren't particularly well defined. If, for instance, something unusually lucky happened, one might declare that a god--pick one--was feeling generous that day. And if a particularly bad thing happened, a god (usually a different one) was upset about something or other. Gods, in other words, were what most of us would now call chance or luck. And in that sense they served their purpose, by making a random existence seem less random.

I'm a pretty sad example of what one should do with eternal life. I've never reached any higher level of consciousness, I don't have access to any great truths, and I've never borne witness to the divine or transcendent. Some of this is just bad luck. Like working in the fishing industry in Galilee and never once running into Jesus.

Probability said that someday we would run out of luck—as

Mother, please, hear me out. If there's something I've learned over the last few years, it's that everything people do is important. I happen to have chosen this particular thing to do with my life, and I was lucky enough to have the choice.

I prefer a more stable game." He tapped the chess-board meaningfully. "Games of strategy which rely on agreed rules and which avoid all semblance of luck are far more to my taste than cards or dice. I like to know where all the pieces are. I like to know what's possible in a game. I don't appreciate being surprised. Would you agree, Miss Winters?

Irene hated trusting to luck. It was no substitute for good planning and careful preparation.

You do realize you had absolutely nothing to do with winning those tickets, right, Reese?

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

Superstitions add texture to life.

It was just Gaston's luck that Orro's prized duck, which he had worked on for three days, had finished cooking. Gaston cut off another piece, speared a sliver of potato dusted with herbs, and chewed with obvious pleasure. "Should we leave you two alone?" Sean asked.

Of course, with my luck, the Shepherd could be a crazy numismatist just dying for a Kennedy fifty-cent piece. Maybe I could set a trap with a handful of change. Here, Shepherd, here boy, look, I have a Susan B. Anthony dollar, you know you want it.

After the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down.