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Quotes About Luck

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
~ Oprah Winfrey
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.
~ Baltasar Gracian
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The lucky ones are just born dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return.
~ Philippa Gregory
It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return. But I don't. I just desire him, desire him and desire him; and I wait for it to burn out. Everything I have ever gained has always turned to ashes after a little while. Why should this be any different?
~ Philippa Gregory
Within human luck is divine intentionality.
~ Unknown
Smash, come on!" Dor cried. "Don't push your luck!" The ogre's reply was muffled. All Dor heard was "… luck!" "Oooo, what you said!" the pebble exclaimed. "Wash out your mouth with soapstone!
~ Piers Anthony
Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Le malchanceux est malchanceux même s'il a une lanterne accrochée au derrière, quoiqu'il fasse, un jour, il pétera et la flamme s'éteindra !
~ Unknown
You know, I was dealt a lot of bad hands.
~ Unknown
It is lucky that it is not windy today. Strange, how in some way one always has the impression of being fortunate, how some chance happening perhaps infinitesimal, stops us crossing the threshold of despair and allows us to live. It is raining, but it is not windy.
~ Primo Levi
Strano, in qualche modo si ha sempre l'impressione di essere fortunati, che una qualche circostanza, magari infinitesima, ci trattenga sull'orlo della disperazione e ci conceda di vivere.
~ Primo Levi
May he have an accident shaped like an umbrella.
~ Primo Levi
Audentes fortuna iuvat. La fortuna favorece a los audaces
~ Unknown
That's a perfect Cory story. I guess you're starting to get the idea. He doesn't need a rabbit's foot for luck.
~ R.L. Stine
You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.
~ Rachel Caine
In bocca al lupo. It was a phrase that the High Garda used to wish one another luck traveling through the Translation portals, a process that was painful and terrifying and dangerous in equal measure, and it seemed right about now. In the mouth of the wolf. Crepi il lupo, thomas responded as Jess's cell was locked tight, and the he was gone, prodded down the hall and to the outer door and away. Kill the wolf.
~ Rachel Caine
To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity. He said that because we live in time, we think that the past is baked and served and eaten, that the present is coming out of the oven in continuous courses, and that the future is not yet even in the mixing bowl. Any
~ Dean Koontz
I could only lose her if, from this moment forward, I made wrong choices, or if she made them. But I would take those odds rather than the odds that luck offered.
~ Dean Koontz
And so we went to the Panamint, where Death had gone to gamble and had, as always, won.
~ Dean Koontz
If coincidence can give, it can take.
~ Dean Koontz
He said that the penny would not bring us luck, that even if it had been a million dollars, it would not of itself bring us luck and change our lives, that what happened to us was of our election—and therefore allowed us more hope than luck could ever provide.
~ Dean Koontz
To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity. He said that because we live in time, we think that the past is baked and served and eaten, that the present is coming out of the oven in continuous courses, and that the future is not yet even in the mixing bowl.
~ Dean Koontz