Luck Quote by Robert McNamara Download Open image “In the end, it was luck. We were *this* close to nuclear war, and luck prevented it.” — Robert McNamara ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Luck Nuclear war War
If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than luck. — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A statement about luck is a statement about the mind, not about the world... We find what seems to have been the lucky break or the big mistake, and so we thank our lucky stars that we took the road less traveled or curse the fates that sent that little wavelet that flipped us on our backs. With hindsight, we… — Eric Kraft Copy Share
I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
All those involved in the firebombing of Tokyo .. were war criminals interviews recorded in the movie The Fog of War.. the firebombing of… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Lesson 2: The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
If you don't meet luck halfway with really hard work, luck won't get you all the way there. — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Clent, however, suppressed any sense of pity without the slightest difficulty. His brain was busy with the icy clockwork of calculation. If only this… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me. It hit… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
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