Do adults realize how lucky they are?

Sadness and love and pain, they’re easy to feel- but not luck.

Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

God has created you, not your future.

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see...

Then one woman looked directly at her husband. “Is our place gone?” “I’m afraid so, girl,” he said. “There isn’t much left up there. But we’re alive. We’re all lucky to be alive. We’d have...

I make my own luck, and I make it in a pot. Then I bring it to potlucks.

something”. To be loved like crazy, like their life depends on you is a once-in-a-lifetime feeling. How many of us can keep their right hand on their heart and say that they have actually experienced...

[It is all a puzzle really. The draft, free agency, the tricky salary cap, a little luck here and there. The Giants already have the biggest piece, Manning.] The biggest thing about him, even last...

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

Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed.

You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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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...