Quotes About Luck

I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one of those lucky horrible people who, no matter what I eat, I don't gain a pound. My whole family is just like that. They're all skinny and tall, and I guess, so am I.

I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you're older, you're really glad. I think it's nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.

You trust to luck. You are not about to master your fate.

It's so quiet and peaceful out here I'm getting bored with breathing. Maybe we'll get lucky and the world will go to Hell again. Fingers crossed.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for it is always there. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm no one important or famous, no matter. It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number. I have loved and been loved as deeply as a man can hope for. Which makes me a lucky man. It also means that I have suffered. Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

I'm the boy who's going to glom onto this junk—if I'm lucky.

Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren't. You are pure at heart or you aren't. If you are pure at heart, or lucky, you might catch a break.

When industrial work crippled and epidemic diseases killed, and where chance—freaks of fortune—produced what John Maynard Keynes, the economist, would later call "the radical uncertainties of capitalism," luck as much as effort seemed to dictate outcomes.

Young as she is, the stuff / Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy: / I wish her a lucky passage.

I had an accident." "That seemes to happen a lot." "It wasn't my fault." "It never is." "I just have bad luck." "Or you're just trouble." "You got a problem with that?" "No problem at all." "Oh my God! Are you going to help or not?

God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while." Smiling, he returned to his chair. "I know. You kept telling me that while I was carrying you. You were very upset." "You...you carried me here?" "After we broke the bench apart and freed your foot." Man. I'd missed out on a lot. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

That however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

gambling's not a sin provided that you always win.

because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

Sometimes lightning struck twice; sometimes, one person got more than their share of suffering.

good luck' follows careful preparation; 'bad luck' comes from sloppiness.

Why were you on that frequency? Because you were wearing a space suit. Why were you wearing it? Because you were determined to space. When a space ship called, you answered. If that is luck, then it is luck every time a batter hits a ball. Kip, 'good luck' follows careful preparation; 'bad luck' comes from sloppiness. You convinced a court older than Man himself that you and your kind were worth saving. Was that mere chance?

Luck is the residue of design," I said.

It should die down in a few days." "And if it doesn't?" Truly shrugged. "Enjoy the idolatry. You earned it, my friend. You really came through for us." A tall thin guy from one of the national networks yelled, "Hey, Sherlock Holmes! Are you really that good or did you just get lucky?" I said, "Some idol." Truly laughed and I climbed into my car and drove away. Slowly. I almost ran over a cameraman.

Circumstances, luck, mutual need, affection and time played a part. No relationships were made in heaven. They were made because living things were looking for good company. And when you found good company, you valued it deeply and were responsible for its up-keep and well-being.