Lucky Quotes - page 68

We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are. (Kristin Davis)
We ought absolutely not to give out a teaching which is flattering to the lucky, and irrelevant to the unhappy. View quote
G. E. M. Anscombe
Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I've been very lucky to put women that I sincerely admire on the cover of 'Vogue:' the then First Lady and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and, more recently, First Lady Michelle Obama. Those were benchmarks for the magazine, and certainly covers that I've been very, very proud of. View quote
Anna Wintour
I am about life. I surround myself with beautiful things. I work hard to have a better life. This job helps me achieve that through the people I meet. I'm lucky – not to have been a cover girl – but to have been able to meet all these people, to live these adventures and travel so comfortably. But despite that, it's still difficult. Nothing comes easily. Everything I‘ve earned is down to me, and no one else. View quote
Léa Seydoux
I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that. View quote
Emma Caulfield
Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You're not ready for it, but if you're lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you'd planned. View quote
Nora Roberts
We all look. The lucky find. View quote
Nora Roberts
I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school and that single sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women and to not compete with or compare myself as much because we were all allowed to be ourselves and be unique and kind of have our unique strengths. View quote
Kerry Washington
Optimism is normal, but some fortunate people are more optimistic than the rest of us. If you are genetically endowed with an optimistic bias, you hardly need to be told that you are a lucky person - you already feel fortunate. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought. (Ernest Hemingway)
Only I have no luck any more. 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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck". View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. View quote
Jodi Picoult
I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad. View quote
Michelle Branch
I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction. View quote
Amy Tan
I've been lucky enough to be able to choose exactly where I want to live. View quote
Ricky Gervais
I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing. View quote
Michelle Kwan
But of course you should have retreated at once from the dominant male. Are you an idiot? You are extremely lucky he was distracted from ripping out your throat by the fruit. He thought you were trying to steal his females. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two. (Cassandra Clare)
I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky. View quote
Chloë Sevigny
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that. View quote
Diana Wynne Jones
I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is. View quote
Larisa Oleynik
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you. View quote
George Clooney