Luck Quotes - page 35

I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.' (Liam Neeson)
USA valiant effort, but no hard luck story. Better team won. Last 16 is about as good as U. S. are, but well respected team now. View quote
Ian Darke
he was undoing the wooden box, and he took out the silver sword. "This is the best of my treasures," he said. "It will bring me luck. And it will bring you luck, because you gave it to me. I don't tell anybody my name - it is not safe. But because you gave me the sword and I didn't borrow it, I will tell you." View quote
Ian Serraillier
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. View quote
Sydney Smith
They deny good luck, love, power, romance, and inspiration From La Jac Brite ointment and incense of all kinds, And condemn in writing skin brightening and whitening and whitening of minds. There is upon the federal trade commission a burden of glory So to defend the fact, so to impel The plucking of hope from the hand, honor from the complexion, Sprite from the spell. View quote
Josephine Miles
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow. View quote
Hillary Clinton
Ooh with a little luck - December will be magic again. View quote
Kate Bush
Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning. View quote
Louis Nizer
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. View quote
William Shakespeare
As good luck would have it. View quote
William Shakespeare
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck. (Allan Sherman)
You can take it as understood that your luck changes only if it's good. View quote
Ogden Nash
If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent Seeking involves some luck now the demand is for skill. View quote
Ovid
If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it. View quote
Jay McInerney
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more. View quote
Mark Twain
It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also. View quote
Mark Twain
My own luck has been curious all my literary life I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, not a truth that anybody would believe. View quote
Mark Twain
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. View quote
Jimmy Buffett
Luck is tenacity of purpose. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used. (Muriel Rukeyser)
Luck is like a bouncing ball that you can never predict when it's going to bounce and bounce or just stop. View quote
Ronald Cohen
girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would welcome the intolerable dull senseless hell you would bring me and I wish you luck in bed and out but not in mine thank you. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Could you try not aiming so much?" he asked me, still standing there. "If you hit him when you aim, it'll just be luck. View quote
J. D. Salinger
To have success in science, you need some luck. But to succeed in science, you need a lot more than luck. View quote
James D. Watson