Quotes About Luck

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO If I live long enough the luck will change.

The good, brave, worthless son of a bitch, Thomas Hudson thought. Old Willie. He made up my mind for me when I was starting to put things off. I would rather have a good Marine, even a ruined Marine, than anything in the world when there are chips down. And we have chips down now. Good luck, Mr. Willie, he thought. And don't drop dead.

If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. And you had a lot of luck, he told himself, to have had such a good life. You've had just as good a life as grandfather's though not as long. You've had as good a life as any one because of these last days. You do not want to complain when you have been so lucky. I wish there was some way to pass on what I've learned

Who do you suppose has it easier? Ones with religion or just taking it straight? It comforts them very much but we know there is no thing to fear. It is only missing it that's bad. Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you. That is where you have all the luck, see? You don't have any of that.

I have tried simply to write the best I can; sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

You're with a lucky boat. Stay with them.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. The

Es mejor que la suerte te sorprenda cuando estás preparado.

he would carry out the orders and it was bad luck that you liked the people you must do it with.

Don't ever kid yourself about loving someone. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. What you have...whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

La chance prend toutes sortes de formes et qui peut la reconnaître ?

Má»—i ngày là má»™t ngày má»›i. G?p may thì t?t hÆ¡n. NhÆ°ng mình Æ°a sá»± chính xác. ?? khi v?n may ??n thì mình Ä'ã s?n sàng.

Ma, pensò, io le tengo al posto giusto. Soltanto non ho più fortuna. Ma chissà? Forse oggi. Ogni giorno è un nuovo giorno. È meglio quando si ha fortuna. Ma io preferisco essere a posto. Così quando viene sono pronto.

Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I'd had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

My' she said. 'We're lucky that you found that place.' 'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

MyÅ›lÄ™, ?e dostajemy takie karty, jak nam rozdajÄ…. Nie mógÅ'byÅ› ich jeszcze raz przetasowa?, rozdawco? – rozmyÅ›laÅ'. -Nie. Karty rozdajÄ… tylko raz, a potem je zbierasz i grasz nimi. PotrafiÄ™ zagra?, je?eli tylko wyciÄ…gnÄ™ coÅ› dobrego – powiedziaÅ' do portretu, na którym to nie wywarÅ'o ?adnego wra?enia.

Ordinary effort, ordinary result. ... Luck is the residue of design. Be steadfast. The anvil outlasts the hammer.

Luck is the residue of design. A man makes being there for his son a priority—chances are good that boy'll turn out safe. You understand me?" He looked at me head-on, the white hospital light hitting his age-spotted face directly. "What I'm saying is, being in a healthy marriage takes two. Being a good father…all that takes is you.

Like Phoenix, you work all your life to find your way, through all the obstructions and the false appearances and the upsets you may have brought on yourself, to reach a meaning—using inventions of your imagination, perhaps helped out by your dreams and bits of good luck. And finally too, like Phoenix, you have to assume that what you are working in aid of is life, not death. But you would make the trip anyway—wouldn't you?—just on hope. 1974

You are lucky if you know what you want to do in life. You are incredibly lucky if you are able to have a career in it.

Sometimes serendipity must be seduced.

Fortune is a liberal mistress; I have often said so, and now begin to experience

Sometimes, what looks like bad luck may turn out to be good luck and vice versa