Luck Quotes
1913 Luck quotes by 1325 unique authors
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Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of…
— Ian Mcewan
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we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but…
— Charles Bukowski
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The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie…
— Sloane Crosley
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Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to…
— Mark Twain
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That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus
— Groucho Marx
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They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life…
— Harper Lee
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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a…
— Jane Austen
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She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart,…
— Eudora Welty
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Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop…
— Terry Pratchett
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But…
— Lloyd Alexander
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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few…
— E. M. Forster
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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
— Mark Twain
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Jeremy, Good luck on your first marriage.
— David Sedaris
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I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But…
— Cornelia Funke
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Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting
— Gregory David Roberts
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Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.
— Gregory Maguire
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There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.
— Sophie Kinsella
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Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault -…
— Jodi Picoult
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That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good…
— Joss Whedon
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It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the…
— Tom Waits
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Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
— Dalai Lama
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