Quotes about luck

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“Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?"
"Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.”

“You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now."
Alec stared at him in horror.
"Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way.”

“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”

“I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)”

“Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.”

“Some folks want their luck buttered.”

“There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”

“Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.”

“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.”

“I was always lucky in my bad luck.”

“If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.”

“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 lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”

“The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love”

“I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.”

“See Scott run,
Run Scott run.
See Scott die,
No such luck.”

“Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)”

“Luck was with me. I saw no spiders.
Luck was against me. I saw no specters.”

“Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?'
Jem: 'Yang guizi… foreign devils.”

“I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat.”

“The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.”

“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.”

“And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.”

“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.”

“What is he doing here?" Curran growled.
"He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade.
"Tough luck. You're mine.”

“Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual
It was a weak pass okay”

“We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”

“Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”

“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”

“Luck equals (1) diversification plus (2) persistence.”

“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?”

“The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.”

“With God on your side, what does luck matter?”

“In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.”

“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”

“the best people have the rottenest luck”

“You can have the other words — chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace.”

“Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.”

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

“Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.”

“There is that. I might have better luck telling him I’m in love with him. Jace thinks everyone’s in love with him anyway.”
“But I,” said Clary, “actually am.”

“I left parts of myself everywhere,
The way absent-minded people leave
Gloves and umbrellas
Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck”

“I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.”

“Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.”

“Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.”

“Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.”

“Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your unconscious choice of mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.”

“Good music always defeats bad luck.”

“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”

“It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.”

“Men are like shoes. Some fit better than others. And sometimes you go out shopping and there's nothing you like. And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both.”

“luck runs out but blessings never do!”

“Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.”

“Luck never gives; it lends.”

“Luck is probability taken personally.”

“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”

“Here's the thing about luck… you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”

“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounded like a quiet tragedy.”

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

“I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset."
Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.”

“It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.”

“Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.”

“She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.”

“Mom’s Israeli. Dad’s Brazilian. What can I say? I am Embassy Row personified. You really lucked out in the best friend department”

“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck.”

“With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.”

“I have it on good authority that Victor's going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you're out of luck. He doesn't seem like the sharing type.”

“Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!”

“Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.”

“a good book
can make an almost
impossible
existence,
liveable

( from 'the luck of the word' )”

“Good luck, boss. Don't let'em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)”

“I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.”

“With luck, it might even snow for us.”

“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.”

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”

“A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!”

“A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.”

“Just Leo’s luck. A super-hot immortal girl was waiting for him on Ogygia, but he couldn’t figure out how to wire a stupid chunk of rock into the three-thousand-year-old navigation device. Some problems even duct tape couldn’t solve.”

“Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.”

“Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.”

“He’s very pretty. For a human.”
“He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.”

“She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.”

“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

“There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.”

“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 luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.”

“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”

“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 now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.”

“If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence”

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”

“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”

“Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting”

“Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.”

“So, in a way, my name being drawn in the reaping was a real piece of luck," says Peeta.”

“Shallow men believe in luck.”

“How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.”

“Perhaps if they're not happy here they can go back to Iran and try their luck with ayatollahs, if they don't like the planning regime or my approach.”

“I can think of a few microorganisms, possibly the tubercle bacillus, the syphilis spirochete, the malarial parasite, and a few others, that have a selective advantage in their ability to infect human beings, but there is nothing to be gained, in an evolutionary sense, by the capacity to cause illness or death. Pathogenicity may be something of a disadvantage for most microbes, carrying lethal risks far more frightening to them than to us. The man who catches a meningococcus is in considerably less danger for his life, even without chemotherapy, than meningococci with the bad luck to catch a man.”

“With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.”

“Darwin's theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring. But because it contradicts the allegorical babblings of a bunch of made-up old books, it's been under attack since day one. That's just tough luck for Darwin. If the Bible had contained a passage that claimed gravity is caused by God pulling objects toward the ground with magic invisible threads, we'd still be debating Newton with idiots too.”