Luck Quotes
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Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.
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When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?
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Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.
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All I can tell people in the Keys who are trying to ride this one out is one of these days your luck is going to run out.
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I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.
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But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again - after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.
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But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
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Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.
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To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.
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Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.
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With luck, it might even snow for us.
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If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
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See Scott run, Run Scott run. See Scott die, No such luck.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.
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Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.
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Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.
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People make their own luck.
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When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.
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The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
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It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.
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Hopefully, it's nothing and he'll be ready for the season. I wish him luck and hope he gets healthy.
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I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.
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Luck is something you always need to have. We have more chance than the Cardinals. They don't have some of the players they had last year, like Matt Morris. We have to start winning the first month, as many games as possible. We have a good team. We have everything.
