Bad Luck Quotes - Page 6

• Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

  Tom Waits

  Play, Piano, Waiting

  "Boho Blues". Interview with Bart Bull in San Francisco for Spin Magazine (USA), Volume 3, No. 6, September 1987.

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• i've come to deliver some bad luck -train heartnet

  Kentaro Yabuki

  Luck, Train, Train Heartnet

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• Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Good Luck, Tragedy, Problem

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• Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

  Willa Cather

  Luck, World, Draws

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.24, Vintage

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• Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck, powerful bad juju, ken?” “Only to people who try to kidnap me,” I tell him sweetly, and March snorts, so I feel obliged to add, “Or rescue me…” And then Dina makes a pfft sound. “Or who travel with me…” My gaze sweeps around the darkened interior, trying to find an ally, but nobody will hold my eyes more than two seconds, it seems. “Fine, frag you all, I’m dark juju, bad luck, and you’re all doomed.

  Ann Aguirre

  Mother, Powerful, Eye

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• Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fate, Romance, Luck

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The economic recession in America wasn’t caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Jobs, Loss, Class

  "New Hampshire Debate: News & Updates From GOP Presidential Forum". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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

  Stephen King

  Good Luck, Hair, Luck

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• There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Greed, Luck

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• I had an accident." "That seemes to happen a lot." "It wasn't my fault." "It never is." "I just have bad luck." "Or you're just trouble." "You got a problem with that?" "No problem at all." "Oh my God! Are you going to help or not?

  Richelle Mead

  Luck, Faults, Helping

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• Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Heart, Reality, Luck

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.122, Princeton University Press

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• It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship." "It's awful worse luck not to.

  Johnny Depp

  Luck, Awful, Ships

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• Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

  Rachel Nichols

  Shopping, Luck, Wheels

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• Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Perfect, Luck, Timing

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• Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

  Herta Muller

  Once Upon A Time, Luck, Blame

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• As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.

  David Benatar

  Luck, Enough, Born

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Good Luck, Looks

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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey

  Money, Stupid, Good Luck

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.210, SIU Press

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• Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.

  Lance Armstrong

  Loss, Winning, Self

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• Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes "good" from "bad" luck.

  Karen Russell

  Understanding, Luck, Events

  "What Author Karen Russell Knows For Sure About 7 P.M." by Karen Russell, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail feathers, and 13 stars over its head - this signifies that when the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and lights out for the American eagle.

  Johnny Carson

  Country, Stars, Men

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• The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

  David Einhorn

  Loss, Luck, Analysis

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• I was scared of the Bible - it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus's disciples and I used to show them modern life - how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn't change my feelings about the Bible jinx.

  Beth Orton

  Running, Jesus, Couple

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Luck, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.44, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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