Good Luck Quotes - Page 6

• it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Complacency, Vain, Difficult

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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• There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

  Henry Sy

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Trying

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• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen attended a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in New York City this week. Hillary told them, 'Good luck with the reboot of your '90s show.' And they said, 'Thanks. Good luck with yours.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Cities, Thanks

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• The year 1999, seventh month, [or simply "sept"] From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Years, Sky

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• Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the '80s.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Quentin Tarantino Shares Criticism Of 'The Lone Ranger,' Thoughts On Ben Affleck As Batman & More". Les Inrockuptibles Interview, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2013.

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• With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Good Night, Country, Jobs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

  Tavis Smiley

  Good Night, Truman, These Days

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Tired, Past

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

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• 100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.

  Patience Jonathan

  Party, Presidential, Political

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• I will never contest election in Nigeria. Whenever my husband retires, I will go back home with him.

  Patience Jonathan

  Husband, Home, Election

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• I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

  Andy Murray

  Song, Winning, Ipods

  "INTERROGATION: Andy Murray". Mirror Online Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. July 1, 2007.

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• …misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Interesting, Luck, Misfortunes

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.784, Xist Publishing

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• By March, 70 percent of women would be employed.

  Patience Jonathan

  Would Be, March, Employed

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• I think people who make checklists are the most miserable and alone because they are looking for the perfect Entenmann's that is delicious and has no calories. Please, you want a brunette with a sense of humor, a doctorate and HIV-negative status? Good luck, honey. Love isn't so frequent that you can put conditions on it.

  Paul Rudnick

  Love Is, Thinking, Perfect

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• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  Patrick Stewart

  Hollywood, Roles, Television

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• It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

  Merle Shain

  Past, Years, Tears

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• Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Long, Waiting, Four

  Sarah Orne Jewett, “A Four-Leaved Clover”

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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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• So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Organization, Support

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.346, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Children, Humble, Hands

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “A Damsel in Distress: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.88, Da Capo Press

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• Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?

  Jacob Grimm

  Moving, Fall, Men

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm “Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

  Stephen King

  Hair, Luck, Bad Luck

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

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Two, Broken

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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• I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Sound, Terrible

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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