Bad luck Quote by Jacques Roumain Download Open image “As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.” — Jacques Roumain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad luck Break Broken Hard times Luck Men
Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are. — Miguel Torres Copy Share Image
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“What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad. — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
She sang a song that sounds like life; I mean it was sad. Délira knew no other types ofsongs. She didn't sing loud, and… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart. — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one. — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain.… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
Back then we were better-behaved than you young boystoday; we were better instructed; so I start in my bestest French:Mademoiselle, from the first time… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
“You never talk to the pitcher when…” He shook his head. “You just never talk to the pitcher when--” “I just wanted to congratulate… — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows it is bad luck to step on a toad or on the shadow of a tree, to walk under a ladder,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because the core of my personal philosophy is that everything that happens to us benefits us, I was also spared the futility of cursing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going -… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
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“Before Tessa could answer, there was a knock at the door, and a familiar voice. "It's Jem. Tessa, are you there?" Charlotte sat bolt… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image