Bad luck Quote by Margery Allingham Download Open image “A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.” — Margery Allingham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad luck Coincidence Genuine Luck Mean Superstitions
I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
The beauty of moments of coincidence and good fortune is that they are surprising. They take you out of the high protective walls of… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that… — Marshall Brickman Copy Share Image
I'm a very superstitious person. I come from a long line of superstitious people, so it's not going anywhere. For instance, we have this… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as luck. everything in life happens for a reason and when it leads you down a path find that… — Dc Copy Share Image
the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat. — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know,… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“THE main thing to remember in autobiography, I have always thought, is not to let any damned modesty creep in to spoil the story. This adventure is mine, Albert Campion's, and I am fairly certain that I was pretty nearly brilliant in it in spite of the fact that I so nearly got myself and old Lugg killed that I… — Margery Allingham Copy Share
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page,… — Margery Allingham Copy Share
It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud… — Margery Allingham Copy Share
“No.' He spoke with a tenderness unexpected in him. 'No, lady, no. Put that clean out of your mind. That dear chap and his… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which… — Margery Allingham 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 him on a good game--” “It’s not over ’til it’s over,” Chase said. “You jinxed me,” Jason said, crouching down in the corner, pressing his palms against his forehead, like he’d been struck with a migraine… — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share
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 was all something dirty that shouldn't be done to anybody, much less to the poor man who had the bad luck to marry me.' So she let herself get undressed openly in the lighted bedroom, safe… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“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 my bad luck, lamenting the occurrence, or feeling as if I was a victim. The reason I was able to benefit from my accident was because of the way I looked at the event. Not for… — Anonymous Copy Share
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
“I was just beginning to wonder how long I would have to wait when finally a guard sauntered up and said, “Galloway, get your stuff, get your bed.” I ran to my cell to get my stuff and I grabbed the toothpaste. The toothpaste was in this clear tube and was clear like hair gel. It had a muted, watered-down… — Noah Galloway Copy Share
“Oh, I don’t buy lottery tickets... because if I won, and I was capable of that kind of odd luck, then I would also… — Chrissi Sepe Copy Share Image
“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 upright. "Oh! He mustn't see you in your dress!" Tessa stood dumbfounded. "Whyever not?" "It's a Shadowhunter custom—bad luck!" Charlotte rose to her feet. "Quickly! Hide behind the wardrobe!" "The wardrobe? But—" Tessa broke off with… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
