Quotes About Luck

Ain't that the way of the world, now? Good luck turns bad. Bad luck turns good. Just a big rolling craps game played between this world and the next, and we the dice getting tossed around.

As luck would have it, Caleb appeared at supper that night. His uniform had been shaken out and pressed, and his butterscotch hair gleamed with cleanliness. He brought Cuban cigars for Rupert and a delicate china figurine for Lily. She looked at him in bewilderment, and he smiled at her as though there had been no disagreement at the front gate only a few hours earlier.

From Luxembourg, for instance, came a seventy-nine-year-old man with two grandsons, one fourteen, the other fifteen. They were now sharing the same luck, the same hardships, the same worries.

Misfortunes they ascribe to the injustice of Fate or of God, and think they are to be pitied because of them; if a stroke of luck comes, it is an achievement of their own.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in miracles.

Luck is the way the dust settles when God passes by.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.

Me gustaría aprender a decirle «gracias», pero sé que nunca encontraré el tono ni la voz que busco para expresar hasta qué punto mi vida es especial porque su forma de mirarme la hace así. Me gustaría decirle que si no lo hago es porque no tengo esa dimensión en la voz y no sé dónde se aprende. Y que qué suerte habernos encontrado. Qué buena suerte la nuestra.

You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.

For each of us, she thought, there is out completeness in another. Whether we find it, or it finds us, or it eludes all finding is a matter of moral luck.

Cat was searching for the company of one who would make her happy. Some of us did not have to look long for that person, some of us found him or her with little difficulty; others had longer to look, and had less luck.

It was pure privilege that determined where so many of us ended up in life, Isabel reflected; it was nothing to do with merit, it was privilege. Or, putting it another way, it was a matter of accident, or luck.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !

Good fortune is the best of all mistresses.

If you believe in "luck", always let it be good luck. Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless". Be "happy", rather than "hapless".

If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.

Why is it no one ever sent me yetOne perfect limousine, do you suppose?Ah no, it's always just my luck to getOne perfect rose.