Luck Quotes - Page 19

• I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.

  Eric Avery

  Kids, Fate, Thinking

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• Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.

  David Gest

  Bombs, Definite, Ten

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• If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.

  Robbie Savage

  Good Luck, Thinking, Talent

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• My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Nice, Weight, Body

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• Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Children, Sacrifice

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• I've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought that it's not worth it any more to push your luck further. [on his retirement

  Mika Hakkinen

  Retirement, Careers, Achieve

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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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• Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

  Roald Amundsen

  Order, Victory, Defeat

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• I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Expectations, Calculations

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• Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

  Roald Amundsen

  Order, People, Victory

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.222, BoD – Books on Demand

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• ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

  John Muir

  Fall, Good Luck, Sky

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.225, Library of America

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• The path of love. Good luck. May your love guide you through the bardo to eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Good Luck, May

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• This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.

  Celeste Holm

  Inspirational, Home, Memorable

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• There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Everything Happens For A Reason, Littles

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• I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.

  Rickson Gracie

  Believe, Dedication, Mma

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• Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

  Miguel Torres

  Men, Mma, He Man

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2013

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• Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• There is one common condition for the lot of women in Western civilization and all other civilizations that we know about for certain, and that is, woman as a sex is disliked and persecuted, while as an individual she is liked, loved, and even, with reasonable luck, sometimes worshipped.

  Rebecca West

  Sex, Women, Civilization

  Speech to the Fabian Society in 1928. "Dame Rebecca West Dies in London" by Linda Charlton, archive.nytimes.com. March 16, 1983.

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• I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.

  Norman Mailer

  Love, Sacrifice, Loss

  Norman Mailer (2007). “Harlot's Ghost: A Novel”, p.65, Random House

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• Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.

  Ian Fleming

  Saws, Mood, Casino Royale

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Good Luck, Long, Waiting

  Sarah Orne Jewett, “A Four-Leaved Clover”

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• No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

  George Lucas

  Thanks, Film, Excellent

  George Lucas, Sally Kline (1999). “George Lucas: Interviews”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.

  Austin O'Malley

  Doe, Saint, Ill

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• I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.

  Freeman Dyson

  Christian, Jesus, Good Luck

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.

  Roger Moore

  Years, Personality, Would Be

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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