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• We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

  Christopher Morley

  Birthday, Children, Kids

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• And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

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• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Money

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• Sometimes you wonder why the only luck we have is bad luck. But you move on.

  Bruce Bochy

  Moving, Luck, Sometimes

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• Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

  Werner Herzog

  Greek, Luck, Tragedy

  "Courting Disaster: Werner Herzog". Interview with Darrell Hartman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2009.

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• A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

  Joanne Harris

  Good Luck, Midnight, Spiders

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.35, Penguin

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• Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

  Selma Blair

  Men, Choices, Luck

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• I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.

  Kristen Stewart

  Crazy, Luck, Thumbs

  "Comic-con: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner And Stephenie Meyer Talk The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2012.

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• When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

  Chad Kroeger

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Happiness, Men, Gambling

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• If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

  Luis Bunuel

  Missing You, Doubt, Luck

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.45, Random House

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• Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

  Don Sutton

  Good Luck, Effort, Best Of Luck

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• Good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

  Sakura Tsukuba

  Good Luck, Rope, Strands

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• A stout heart breaks bad luck.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heart, Luck, Break

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.601, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared

  Ian Fleming

  Love, Appreciation, Mistake

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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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

  Good Luck, Men, Thinking

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

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• The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

  Will Cuppy

  Good Luck, Bees, Ancient

  "How to Attract the Wombat". Book by Will Cuppy, 1949.

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• When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Strong, Luck, Overcoming

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• The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

  Peter Senge

  Mistake, Perspective, Luck

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.41, Random House

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• Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

  Irvine Welsh

  Luck, Proximity, Sufferers

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Luck, Comfort, Dungeons

  Twitter post from Jun 04, 2013

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• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

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• God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence of our being human and being mortal. living in a world of inflexible natural laws. The painful things that happen to us are not punishments for our misbehavior, nor are they in any way part of some grand design on God's part. Because the tragedy is not God's will, we need not feel hurt or betrayed by God when tragedy strikes. We can turn to Him for help in overcoming it, precisely because we can tell ourselves that God is as outraged by it as we are.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Hurt, Healing, Law

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.159, Pan Macmillan

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• A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

  Thomas Hood

  Names, Luck, Birth

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.115

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