Good Luck Quotes - Page 11

• I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

  Bear Grylls

  Cards, Rare Occasion, Expeditions

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• Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Real, Lucky, Ifs

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

  Roger Moore

  People, Comfort, Lines

  "From his first job on the milkround to life as a Monaco millionaire: the late Sir Roger Moore on the subject of money". Telegraph Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 24, 2017.

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• Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.

  Cathy Cassidy

  Stars, Cat, Eye

  Cathy Cassidy (2008). “Lucky Star”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

  Christine Pelosi

  Husband, Pregnancy, Self

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• Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Kids, Independent, Fighting

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.45, A&C Black

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• Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.347, Courier Corporation

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• Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

  William Hague

  Political, Normal, Politician

  "Decca Aitkenhead meets William Hague". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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• I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Way, Odd

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• I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

  Janis Ian

  Couple, Writing, Fiction

  "An Interview With Janis Ian Plus This Week’s New Albums". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. 23 September, 2009.

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• The path of love. Good luck. May your love guide you through the bardo to eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, May, Path Of Love

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• ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

  John Muir

  Fall, Sky, Rivers

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.225, Library of America

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• Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

  Orson Welles

  Men, Thinking, Odd Man

  "Orson Welles: The Unfulfilled Promise" by Barbara Leaming, The New York Times, July 14, 1985.

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• If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.

  Robbie Savage

  Thinking, Talent, Young

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• The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.

  William Saroyan

  Song, Simple, Facts

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book by William Saroyan, 1961.

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• I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.

  Twyla Tharp

  Fall, Destiny, Generous Spirit

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• ...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Heart, Hinges, Luck

  David Steindl-Rast (1983). “A listening heart: the art of contemplative living”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

  Henry George Bohn

  Long, Luck, Arms

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.364

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• The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, President, Gas Stations

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• The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Long, House, Ghost

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• John Kerry said today he wants to debate President Bush once a month. Hey good luck, if Bush couldn't make it to the National Guard once a month, he's not going to show up for this.

  Jay Leno

  President, Hey, Want

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• Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

  Tom Bergeron

  Success, Failure, Humor

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• When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Doors, Luck

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.186

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• I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Believe, Eight, Numbers

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• But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck!

  Robert Graves

  Confused, Moon, Giving

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