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Quotes About Luck

I don't know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it's an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no 'should' in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my good luck.
~ Julian Barnes
And good luck to you, Miss Vale, wherever you may go.
~ Julie Anne Long
They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan. STILL
~ Julie Otsuka
They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan.
~ Julie Otsuka
It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.
~ Justin Taylor
what cheered me most was to watch the girl quietly playing with her yoyo in the shadow of the emergency stairs, unseen by anyone but me. She was burdened with a great misfortune that she could not perceive as misfortune. She did not know how much luckier she was than the rest of mankind aware of unhappiness.
~ K?b? Abe
She'd just rear-ended a cop car and she said that only the week before she'd been arrested shoplifting tortillas and salsa for a Sunday afternoon football party at her house. 'This is so not good,' she told me. 'Honestly, I have the worst luck.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
And knowing my luck Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that'll be the Engineer sign for "Your mom's a skank.
~ Karen Traviss
I must be so lucky, as I'd been using the boiler without the plastic ring for ages and me and Suzanne are still alive (I wish there was a sarcasm font).
~ Karl Pilkington
You! You are so lucky you're dead.
~ Kat Richardson
There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.
~ Kate Atkinson
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
~ Herodotus
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
~ James Russell Lowell
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
~ John Dryden
That power Which erring men call Chance.
~ John Milton
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.
~ Mark Twain
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.
~ Nicholas Sparks
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.
~ Publilius Syrus
Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]
~ Ovid
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
~ Solon
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
~ Sophocles