Unlucky Quotes - Page 2

• There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.

  Vernon Lee

  Hustle, Progress, Add

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”

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• You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Luck, Opponents, Rely

  "In conversation - Bernie Ecclestone and Nico Rosberg". Interview With Nico Rosberg, www.formula1.com. May 24, 2015.

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• I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  God, Religious, Believe

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• It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

  Stephen Fry

  Stupid, Reason, Superstitious

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• I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

  Henry Cavill

  Tough, Aim High, Happens

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• People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

  Margaret Mead

  Dream, Fashion, Ambition

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• we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.

  Salman Rushdie

  Falling In Love, Stars, Moving

  Salman Rushdie (1995). “The Moor's last sigh”

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• Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

  Lee Trevino

  Funny, Golf, Turtles

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• Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Critters, Stew

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• I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water.

  William G. Tapply

  Fishing, Water, Gone

  William G. Tapply (1997). “A Fly-Fishing Life”

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• Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

  Ricky Gervais

  Funny, Reading, People

  "Fictional character: David Brent". TV Series "The Office", 2001-2003.

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place.

  Richard Wiseman

  Success, Opportunity, Want Something

  "How To Make Your Own Luck". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.fastcompany.com. June 30, 2003.

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• Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Eye, Light

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• I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no harm at all, and on which, believe me, I am doing nothing that is good... I hope things will improve eventually; as it is, I am pretty wretched.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Art, Believe, Struggle

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• 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.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Stars, Lucky, Our Actions

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• If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Beer, Parent, Overcoming

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• Thirteen at a table is unlucky only,
  when the hostess has only twelve chops.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Twelve, Tables

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• According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

  Hannah Arendt

  Competition, Luck, Honor

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

  George Washington

  Thinking, Gentleman, Events

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.121

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• Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air.

  James Vila Blake

  Kindness, Issues, Air

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• There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May, Prudent, Advantage

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• In some respects I have been the most unlucky because I have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than I have spent in Tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we Tibetans had never known before.

  Dalai Lama

  Country, Hands, Democracy

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• Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.

  Henrik Larsson

  Player, Messi, Eras

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