Luck Quotes - Page 31

• California officials want to contain a measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland last month. They are in luck because everyone who is exposed to it is still in line at Space Mountain.

  Conan O'Brien

  California, Space, Mountain

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• Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs, restrictions, and prohibitions. It is so complicated. It has gotten so bad, I never park my car without a lawyer.

  David Letterman

  New York, Good Luck, Cities

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• It was the first time I used that bat. A Yankee fan in Chicago gave it to me the last time we were there and said it would bring me luck. There's no brand name on it or anything. Maybe the guy made it himself. It had been in the bat rack, and I picked it up by mistake because it looked like the bat I had been using the last few days.

  Graig Nettles

  Mistake, Yankees, Names

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• Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

  Livy

  Peace, War, Endeavor

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• Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Gambling, Play

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• How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Skills

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• Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The Ghost of That Character kind of haunt the movie in a way throughout, by having Raquel look so much like her. And also, it was sort of serendipity. I mean, she was also the best actress. I mean, as you can see Raquel has a pretty appealing, engaging kind of precocious, sparkly quality that's... it was just luck really that she happened to the film.

  Ben Affleck

  Character, Mean, Ideas

  "Talking with the guy who gets Jersey Girl". Interview with Steve Head, ca.ign.com. March 24, 2004.

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• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

  Euripides

  Kings, Cities, Evil

  "Bellerophon". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 425 BCE.

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• The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Hurt, Days Off

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• Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck? Of course not, Bohr replied, but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not.

  Arthur Koestler

  Believe, Doors, House

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• I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.

  Anna Paquin

  Homework, Ass, Living My Life

  Source: collider.com

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• At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivation, School, Play

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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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

  Good Luck, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Doe, Complaining, Know How

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• Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  United States, Would Be, World

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “America Day by Day”

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Good Luck, Complacency, Vain

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

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• My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Gambling, Meals, Dollars

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

  Ayn Rand

  Today, Talent, Helpless

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.51, Penguin

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• youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

  Freya Stark

  Age, Looks, World

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• To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

  Hosea Ballou

  Law, Littles, Causes

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• If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.

  Rebecca West

  Men, Wife, Office

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fortune, Irritating

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• Writers on the subject of August Strindberg have hitherto omitted to mention that he could not write. ... Strindberg, who was neither a good nor a wise man, had a stroke of luck. He went mad. He lost the power of inhibition. Everything down to the pettiest suspicion that the dog had been given the leanest mutton chop, poured out of his lips. Men of his weakness and sensuality are usually, from their sheer brutishness, unable to express themselves. But Strindberg was mad and articulate. That is what makes him immortal.

  Rebecca West

  Wise, Dog, Writing

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• Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

  Clint Eastwood

  Jobs, Good Luck, Decision

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• There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

  Clive Owen

  Elements, Huge

  "Any actor who thinks he's a sex symbol has got serious problems". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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