Luck Quotes
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People make their own luck.
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My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck. And her life continuously appears in mine, in the words that I've uttered, in which there's often an echo of hers, in a particular gesture that is an adaptation of a gesture of hers, in my less which is such because of her more, in my more which is the yielding to the force of her less.
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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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I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
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I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.
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You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.
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I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his 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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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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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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I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
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I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.
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Luck is a finite and rare substance in the universe, like palladium or cobalt. To use it, you have to take it from somebody else.
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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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You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.
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Good luck trying to force Evie to do anything else once she has made up her mind. She is the definition of a stubborn, headstrong teenager.” “And you love me for it.” “I do.
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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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There's no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, 'OK, I'm going to model my ascent based on this other person's,' luck and timing play such a big part that it's really futile.
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I scooted over, patting the bed next to me. "No such luck. And now you get to watch forty straight hours of Easton Heights with me!" He turned on the first disk, shaking his head, then got onto the bed next to me. "Small price to pay for getting to hold your hand." I wasn't cold anymore.
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You have to be ready for luck.
