Luck Quotes · Page 78

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

— John Gielgud

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

— Winston Churchill

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

— Isaac Asimov

“Fate doesnt exist, if you find someone you love that loves you back, its called luck.”

— Natalie Stenger

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.

— Thomas Bastard

Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

— Ilona Andrews

I never planned to go on television, it was just by chance.

— Monica Galetti

When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.

— Kevin Harvick

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe…

— William Dunbar

For people like me, who appreciate the love and respect you get from the fans in Japan, there was no reason for…

— Alberto Del Rio

I've been very lucky in this second marriage. It's just luck. It's absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So…

— Paul Auster

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us…

— George Bernard Shaw

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is…

— Fred Saberhagen

“One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It…

— Richard Dawkins

In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word "coincidence" does not describe luck or mistakes. It…

— Wayne Dyer

“[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing…

— Michael Chabon

People call you "director," but it really should be "economic manager." Because everything is "Well, we can do another take here, but…

— Todd Solondz

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through…

— Tim Harford

There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for…

— Rebecca West

Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others…

— David Mitchell

“The toughest fucking moments in life are the ones where the whole world is a big, fat unkown, where chance has more…

— C.M. Stunich

The thing to keep in mind is that the answer to the question I often get - Are leaders born or made?…

— Stewart D. Friedman

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or…

— William Shakespeare

I was trained at a conservatory school, and they usher you into the business by giving you a showcase. I was so…

— Abby Brammell

I think I have a better chance at getting an Oscar before a Grammy.

— Bow Wow

Sometimes you have to wait. Sometimes you have to be patient, and your chances will come.

— Kieran Trippier

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

— Sally Mann

“So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.”

— Roger Ebert

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

— Arnold Palmer

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

— Freya Stark

In this business, you need to be in the right place at the right time, have luck and the courage to do…

— Rita Tushingham

“I was just trying to open the door... but the walls fall down”

— Saket Assertive

“At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

Good luck is the gayest of all gay girls; Long in one place, she will not stay:

— John Milton Hay

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

— Zoe Kazan

“Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld, Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

— Irving Babbitt

“the math tells us why: the unknown has a chance of being better”

— Brian Christian

“My luck for this year depends on one word. It's called work!”

— Alin Sav

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

— Adolf Hitler