Luck Quotes - page 4

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck. (Ba Jin)
Luck is believing you're lucky. View quote
Tennessee Williams
I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since. View quote
Freeman Dyson
The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing. View quote
Lucian
Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. View quote
Irvine Welsh
I guess the kid had everything but the luck. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation. View quote
Norman Mailer
Good luck needs no explanation. View quote
Shirley Temple
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change. View quote
Thom Yorke
I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press. (Theo de Raadt)
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance. View quote
Jamie Oliver
Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily. View quote
Ian McEwan
My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are. View quote
Emil Cioran
I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days. View quote
Willie Nelson
Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers. View quote
Phil Brooks
With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Everything in life is luck. View quote
Donald Trump
Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
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
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her? (Ernest Hemingway)
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. View quote
Amy Tan
There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped. View quote
Rebecca West
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. View quote
Orson Welles