Lucky Man Quotes - Page 2

• As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

  George Eliot

  Good Luck, Men, Unlucky

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.374

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• I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

  Wallace Shawn

  Beautiful, Men, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Men, Color

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.375, Penguin

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• I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

  Pablo Neruda

  Beautiful, Brother, Sleep

  Pablo Neruda, Mikis Theodorakis (1985). “Canto general: a song of the people”

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• Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.

  John Fogerty

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Jobs, Men, Skills

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

  Josh Charles

  Growing Up, True Friend, Dad

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

  Robert Collier

  Perseverance, Business, Good Luck

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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• I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.

  Iris Apfel

  Husband, Men, Lucky

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• I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Men, Hands, Feet

  "Oscars 2015: Read Stephen Hawking's Touching Words for Winner Eddie Redmayne" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2015.

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• I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone like Legolas, who's this super-cool kind of otherworldly elf. It's, like, I'm lucky, man, so why would I not appreciate that?

  Orlando Bloom

  Jobs, Mean, Men

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• I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

  William Shakespeare

  Nice, Fighting, Men

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2627, Oxford University Press

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• I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, 'You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man.'

  Gregory Peck

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

  Charles Jencks

  Real, Cancer, Men

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• An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

  Solon

  Men, Desire, Riding

  "The Histories Bk. 1". Book by Herodotus, trans. Robin Waterfield, ch. 32, pp. 15-16.,

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• Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

  John Dryden

  Men, Light, Heaven

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• Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Luck, Mouths

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• I've been very lucky, man. Like you say, though, the writing is what kicked all that in and made it possible. It's something that I have always been very thankful of, that that kicked in, and that I could be free with the music.

  Tony Joe White

  Writing, Men, Lucky

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