Quotes About Luck

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

And, Randy's favorite, As to luck, there is the old miners' proverb: "Gold is where you find it.

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

What about: I got Jack and shit and Jack left town.

They should have a slot game called Sucker. You get a row of five suckers and the machine kicks you in the nuts and swallows all the coins in your tray.

You know, you're a very lucky man." "Why do you say that?" "You've got a full-time job to do.

All rapidly accumulated wealth is either the result of luck or discovery, or the result of a legalised theft.

My generation feels like it's the lucky one,' she told me one night. 'Our grandparents had the Great Leap Forward, our parents had the Cultural Revolution. But we get to study, to travel, to make money. So I guess we really don't think that much about the Square thing.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.

Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right.

Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

A good man is hard to find, she said wistfully. Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

Honestly, of the two of us, I was the lucky one.

I've been lucky, for no one should ever be forced to march through life alone.

He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been so lucky to find her.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.