Quotes and Sayings About Luck
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
-- A. E. HousmanSource : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
-- A. E. Housman -
Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.
-- A. P. HerbertSource : 1930 'Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something'.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
-- Aaron Allston -
I think that everyone's life is controlled by a series of events. They choose what they want and if it is in their control they can reach it. Sometimes luck shines on them and sometimes it doesn't. I also think accidents happen and we are placed in situations where we have to do things for those we love that we don't want to do.
-- Abbi Glines -
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training
-- Abhinav Bindra -
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Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
-- Abraham de MoivreSource : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".
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With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.
-- Adam Kirsch -
An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
-- Adolf GallandSource : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
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My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.
-- Adolphe MenjouSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
-- Al Alvarez -
We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.
-- Alain Vigneault -
There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Orient. You hope for the best and hope you are lucky.
-- Alan Sugar -
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In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
-- Albert Camus -
Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.
-- Albert Camus -
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.
-- Albert Camus -
Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.
-- Albert M. Greenfield -
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Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
-- Alex Trebek -
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
-- Alexander Fleming -
His huff arrived and he departed in it.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
-- Alfred Polgar -
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Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.
-- Alice Hoffman -
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape
-- Alice JamesSource : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”
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If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
-- Alison Moyet -
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A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next
-- Amber Tamblyn -
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
-- Amelia Barr