Bad Luck Quotes - Page 4

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Luck, Forget

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good music always defeats bad luck

  Jack Vance

  Music, Luck, Defeat

  Jack Vance (1983). “Suldrun's Garden”

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  People, History, Luck

  10 Copy quote

• There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Moving, Good Luck, Evil

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

  Thucydides

  Luck, Reason, Modern

  9 Copy quote

• There was no such thing as luck.  Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity.  More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Stupidity, Luck, Selfishness

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two”, p.361, Hachette UK

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.

  Seth Klarman

  Errors, Safety, Luck

  "Here's an explanation of Ben Graham's concept of 'margin of safety'". www.businessinsider.com. February 10, 2016.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck.

  Lou Reed

  Voice, People, Choices

  Song: Street Hassle

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

  Mike Liut

  Hockey, Luck, Puck

  4 Copy quote

• I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

  Casey Affleck

  Agents, Moved, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leader, Gentleman, Luck

  7 Copy quote

• Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or desires. This is called luck by those who are unaware of the workings of higher Worlds. Providence also creates very difficult circumstances to reveal or dissolve a fixed situation ... This is called bad luck or later, A Blessing in Disguise.

  Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi

  Perseverance, Blessing, Thinking

  13 Copy quote

• Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

  Virginia Graham

  Games, Tennis, Luck

  14 Copy quote

• I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

  Angela Merkel

  Strong, Sorry, Team

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  39 Copy quote

• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  James Altucher

  Love You, Sacrifice, Ideas

  "Wall Street’s ‘Eat What You Kill’ Motto Is the Only Way to Live" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

  John Prine

  Country, Car, Luck

  31 Copy quote

• As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

  Jacques Roumain

  Hard Times, Men, Broken

  8 Copy quote

• If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.

  Jandy Nelson

  Luck, Knows, Ifs

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.104, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

  Robert Altman

  Nice, Winning, Expectations

  11 Copy quote

• That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus

  Groucho Marx

  Luck, Three, Circus

  5 Copy quote

• Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

  Doris Lessing

  Luck, Boulders

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

  Susan Jacoby

  Disappointment, Writing, Simple

  10 Copy quote

• Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Luck, Trying, Blame

  4 Copy quote

• Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

  Charles Bukowski

  Father, Luck, Would Be

  9 Copy quote