Luck Quotes - Page 19

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

Give luck a chance to happen.

I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.

I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

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.

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

If you don't like potlucks, the solution to your problem is "don't go to potlucks," not "insist other people don't have them."

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.