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Quotes About Luck

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
~ David Friedman
Perhaps," he continued, "this capacity for evil is in all of us, then, and it's largely down to fortune whether we encounter the circumstance that breathes life into it or not. Just as it's luck that determines when or if that faulty gene breaks and gives you cancer or Marfan or the physique of an Olympian.
~ David Hewson
Stercus accidit.
~ David Hume
Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.
~ David J. Schwartz
You're lucky. You've got money—enough money to rescue, and to choose who you rescue—and you want the satisfaction of exercising that power. And yet there's another side to it. There's my admitting, my having to admit, that if I'd led a better, more orderly life, I wouldn't be in this position
~ David Leavitt
Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.
~ David Levien
Sometimes it is a comfort to believe that one day is like another, that things happen over and over and are the same. But accidents happen, and sometimes a man or a woman is lucky enough to see that all of it, from the first light kiss onward, could have gone another way.
~ David Long
See Scott run, Run Scott run. See Scott die, No such luck.
~ David Lubar
With the Irishmen at bat the dog acts as a charm. He sits at the far end of the dugout. Whoever touches him on his way to the plate will have luck with hi as he swings. Each batter leaving the dugout places his hand on London's head.
~ David Malcolmson
God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'
~ Charlie Munger
Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.
~ David Foster Wallace
I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God.
~ Emerson Fittipaldi
God's dice always have a lucky roll.
~ Sophocles
Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
~ Aeschylus
How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.
~ Augustus William Hare
If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.
~ John Graves
The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
~ James D. Watson
We don't require luck," said Will, "we have a heavenly mandate, after all. With God on your side, what does luck matter?
~ Cassandra Clare
God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.
~ Mark Twain
Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.
~ Nicolas Roeg
I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe.
~ Joey Gathright
Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.
~ Stuart Wilde