Luck Quotes
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I had the luck of having an obedient body.
Burt Lancaster
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The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society!
Henry David Thoreau
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I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
Denzel Washington
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The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."
Napoleon Hill
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield
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I literally can't believe my luck. Torturing Americans should not only be easy, but a pleasure!
Jimmy Carr
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I carry condoms in my purse, even though I haven't had sex in a long time. I'm hoping for luck! And I carry them so I can give them to other people who might want or need them, or who might want to have a conversation.
Sharon Stone
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Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.
John Travolta
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Work hard and don’t give up…a lot of luck is involved as well, so a strong will is important too.
Natalie Horler
Cascada
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There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
Derek Walcott
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Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.
Umberto Eco
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You can have the other words - chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.
Mary Oliver
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Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.
Faith Baldwin
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Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it's a great shot, but if it goes in, it's luck?
David L. Wolper
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People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.
William Hurt
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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
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A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I'm not a karma guy. I don't believe in any kind of luck, either. ... We've been fortunate. I would say that.
Joe Gibbs