Quotes About Luck

May misfortune follow us the rest of our lives, but never catch up.

Diesel was smiling at Grandma. "You blew through almost two hundred thousand and you were playing dollar slots? That's impressive." "Especially since some of that time I was winning," Grandma said. "Twelve dollars?" "Yep. I was on a roll.

You should snap me up," Morelli said. "Not many men would marry you after meeting your grandmother. You're lucky to have me.

May misfortune follow us for the rest of our lives, but never catch up-Nicolas Fox, The Heist

It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

I have got a self-confidence that I have the ability but felt I was not being lucky and was an unlucky person.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

Even the best teams, there are times during the year when you cannot win, and you don't know why. Maybe you are unlucky; you make chances, and you cannot score.

The Champions League is so difficult, It's like a lottery: sometimes you're just unlucky.

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

I've been a bit unlucky with small injuries.

I don't think I'm an unlucky person.

I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.

Superstitions actually played a big role in my life. I wouldn't even go on a casting call if I had a hunch that it was an 'unlucky' day.

I used to always judge other people's mistakes in the mountains. I think a bit differently now. Everybody's gotten away with a mistake or poor decision out there at one point or another, but sometimes it catches up to you, or sometimes you're just plain unlucky.

I think I'm both lucky but also unlucky, because sometimes I miss so many matches.

I do lots of projects in film and TV. You have some that are lucky, and some that are unlucky.

Even as an empiricist, I have to say that I believe in luck. I've seen it too many times in politics to let it pass by unnoticed.

My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.

Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.