When people say “Oh wow, you’re so lucky” … I always wonder how they define luck. I can assure you people don’t achieve their dreams because their lucky; they work day and night, with little...

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

She’s okay. But it was probably her shooting arm. That’s just my luck.

Success is not a game of luck; it is a game of willpower.

To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it...

Only few people enjoy life in better way rest of the made just to facilitate those few.

According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 240 B.C., Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her teacup. When she tried to remove...

Here’s where I luck out: I’m really computer illiterate.

It’s lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I’m in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.

It was kind of crazy luck that it was me with the device and two nurses that were three of the first four on the scene.

I don’t think it’s declined. I just think we’ve had some bad luck. You can’t really say we’ve declined. We’ve done the best we can with what we’ve had.

There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

Risk means ‘shit happens’ or ‘good luck

I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if...

There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened,...

Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

Where do we find happiness? Unfortunately, the common belief with most people is that happiness is something that happens to them when conditions are just right rather than something that happens through them when they...

We had that little bit of luck we have been missing all season.

I realize all guys have thorns. But I am a rose, and she chose a cactus over me. I wish her luck with her dry, desert-like existence with him.

Luck and nature shapes our imagination.

The happy-go-lucky have the best luck.

Sometimes a crumb fallsFrom the tables of joy, Sometimes a boneIs flung.To some peopleLove is given, To othersOnly heaven.

My luck’s no greater than yours or any man’s. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.

In the game of cards, he would always get the worst hand. In the game of dice, he always got the worst numbers. By the age 7 he had already accepted that luck was not...

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She’d been lucky in so much, it had...

As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

We had good luck there, but we had bad luck in missing the point after touchdown to make us have to onside kick in the first place. We were hoping for an over-adjustment, so we...

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Quand j’étais petit, je me suis aperçu que je n’avais pas de ligne de chance, alors avec le rasoir de mon pére… zac, je m’en suis fait une comme je voulais.

He’d once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in...

Respect, wealth, property, friendship, even love. Did I expect to simply fall over each of them as I strolled aimlessly through the years? Was I expecting my whole life to be some form of lucky...

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn’t any gum under any of them.

I don’t know much about them. I’ve made a few phone calls and not had much luck. But we have to worry about us. If we take care of ourselves, that is all that matters.

It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.

Bad luck there, Ricky.

Nearly’ only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the...

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I’ve undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

Nobody knows anything…… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one.

Sene sovya caba’donde ain dovienya

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.

Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.

We will have to accept it, … We played great soccer and with a bit of luck, we could have scored a couple more. Now we’ll have to beat the Latvians.

There was no luck. There was only preparation meets opportunity, and recognizing the latter and knowing when to seize it was ninety percent of any great success.

Getting struck by lightning is like winning the lottery, only it’ll ruin your life faster.

This is the way things work sometimes, that good things get ideas from each other, say, well now let’s go ahead and let her have it all.

Ich finde, dass das Glück zu einem kleinen Schlage, den es uns versetzen will, oft erschrecklich weit ausholt. Man sollte glauben, es wolle uns zerschmettern, und hat uns am Ende nichts, als eine Mücke auf...

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

In Madeleine’s face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they...