Luck Quotes
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Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
Hilary Swank
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I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.
David Bowie
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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Euripides
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You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.
Michael Frayn
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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.
Kiersten White
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Others haven’t had the same luck. In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence that reaches into our cities and our habits we’re startled, we’re alarmed.
Elena Ferrante
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
Sophocles
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It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.
Haruki Murakami
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To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
Richard Feynman
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
Seneca the Younger
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A stout heart breaks bad luck.
Miguel de Cervantes
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For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
Paul Newman
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Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual It was a weak pass okay.
Brandon Mull
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There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.
Georges St-Pierre
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People always tell me how lucky I am that my kids are adventurous eaters, but I don't believe that it's luck at all. By my involving them in the process, not only are they more likely to try something new, but also I can count on them to make better choices when I'm not around.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Give luck a chance to happen.
Tom Kite
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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright
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I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.
Paul Newman
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That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
Sue Grafton
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The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side
Roger Federer
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But I’ve learned that I’m stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away.
Courtney Milan