Luck And Bad Luck Quotes

#1. The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck and bad luck that made up one person's existence.

William Boyd

#2. What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

Sakura Tsukuba

#3. When something bad happens to us, something good happens - often to someone else. And that's The Good Luck of Right Now. We must believe it. We must. We must. We must.

Matthew Quick

#4. I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

John Prine

#5. He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us feel more vulnerable than ever to the blind legitmacy of bad luck.

Carlos Fuentes

#6. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck

Sanhita Baruah

#7. And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

Jonathan Stroud

#8. As my nostrils filled with the stench of burnt hair and my friends scurried to clean up the mess, I thought, 'If your hair catches on fire while you're making a wish, does that mean it isn't coming true?

Sarah Thebarge

#9. Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.

Daya Kudari

#10. I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Steven Wright

#11. There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Gaby wasn't having much luck with cats lately. The stray from yesterday had left her with red welts and a bad dream, and Lemon had just tried to eat her hair.

Angela Cervantes

#14. Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

Joel Greenblatt

#15. second rule, learned from a lifetime of bad luck and trouble: Maintain a little dignity.

Lee Child

#16. Height of bad luck will be ... when I will dare to kiss a prince and he will turn into a frog.

Upasana Banerjee

#17. God does not send the problem; genetics, chance, and bad luck do that. And God cannot make the problem go away, no matter how many prayers and good deeds we offer. What God does is promise us, I will be with you; you will feel burdened but you will never feel abandoned. In

Harold S. Kushner

#18. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

Jean Van Hamme

#19. Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'

Muhammad Ali

#20. I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.

Eddie Huang

#21. Over eight hundred US troops died in Iraq. Bad luck for those boys and girls.

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

#22. Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs, restrictions, and prohibitions. It is so complicated. It has gotten so bad, I never park my car without a lawyer.

David Letterman

#23. Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Wesley Morris

#24. Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

Wally Lamb

#25. A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

Bertrand Russell

#26. You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

Bill Watterson

#27. 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

#28. What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? They are all opinions,

Ryan Holiday

#29. 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

#30. Only very few people can remain unruffled by trouble.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

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

Herta Muller

#32. Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

James Vila Blake

#33. It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#34. My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Sam Shepard

#35. I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

Jack Nicklaus

#36. I forgot for a second that he was my ancestral enemy, and felt bad for him; then i consoled myself that bird poop brings good luck

Rob Reger

#37. Like some people are bad at math, some people are bad at talking to women. And some at both, now that's luck I guess.

Daya Kudari

#38. Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.

Al Siebert

#39. You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can even call their own. So the first thing that they see, that allows them the right to be, why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck..

Lou Reed

#40. Life is unfair, princess. Bad things happen to good people. Lady Luck is a motherfucking bitch. But we keep our chins up. We don't give up. We don't surrender. And we come back swinging.

Elle Aycart

#41. A challenge to your bad luck is your confidence. Your confidence, you and your patience is your good luck.

Dhiraj Das

#42. Ain't that the way of the world, now? Good luck turns bad. Bad luck turns good. Just a big rolling craps game played between this world and the next, and we the dice getting tossed around.

Libba Bray

#43. He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.

Stephen Dobyns

#44. Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.

Rohit Shetty

#45. It's true, after all, at least compared to him, and actually what he means is that I have bad luck with women. Something about going for the bitchy ones or the crazy ones or the ones who pretend not to know me when other people are around.

Jennifer Niven

#46. 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

#47. We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters

Joe Abercrombie

#48. Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Faith Baldwin

#49. Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?

Amy Neftzger

#50. So how did you wind up joining the Rebellion?"
"An old guy and a kid were looking for a ride and I needed the money," Han said. "After that, it was just bad luck.

James S.A. Corey

#51. We all struggle in some way or another. So it's on us to work hard, and strive towards a better and healthy life.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#52. 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

#53. Most people die old, full of pain and regret. Or young and full of drugs and self-indulgence - or sheer bad luck.

Caroline Kepnes

#54. Even those who die in terrorist attacks, and have thus had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, are described as "heroes", though given a choice most of them would no doubt have preferred to be somewhere else when the blow was struck.

Michael Korda

#55. Heavier than bad luck and twice as ugly.

Junot Diaz

#56. We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and their); there's sounds like theirs; and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.

Lynne Truss

#57. Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he gets points for callow valor and sympathy for his run of bad luck, but he remains a pasty, earnest bore.

Richard Corliss

#58. Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.

Nabil Basma

#59. 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

#60. MURRY: I believe in a lot of things. Santa Claus, magic, vampires, and even ghosts but I don't believe in luck. Good or bad.

Hillary DePiano

#61. How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine?

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#62. I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children!

Donald Trump

#63. 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

#64. I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.

Marshall Brickman

#65. That's ally our life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula.

William Boyd

#66. 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

#67. The superstitious one will never walk upon a grave. It's said that its sinful in the day and terrible bad luck in the dark.

C.L. Bevill

#68. There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.

Catherynne M Valente

#69. Much more. We're joined at the heart."
"Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky."
"Too much boozing."
His eyes twinkled, and he drew me close. "Not enough kissling.

Diane Ackerman

#70. Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

William Feather

#71. It's Obama's bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed.

Tina Brown

#72. Maybe, I thought- reaching in the bag, taking out a stack of money and looking it over- maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in. You didn't feel anything at first.

Donna Tartt

#73. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.

Anthony Doerr

#74. In life we all go through trials and tribulations. So now tell me, will you pass or will you make a mess?

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#75. Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

Virginia Graham

#76. I pray. I go to mass. I even remember to respect my elders and help little old ladies across the street. What the hell did I do to deserve this?

Lora Leigh

#77. Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.

John Steinbeck

#78. Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.

John Lyman Chatfield

#79. New Rule: If you married a manic-depressive, three of your children died, and while you were president civil war broke out and someone shot you in the head, your coin really shouldn't say, In God We Trust.

Bill Maher

#80. I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

#81. [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Ernest Hemingway,

#82. THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO

Do you have bad luck with all games?
With everything and with women. He smiled again, showng his bad teeth.
Truly? -Truly
And what is there to do?
-Continue, slowly, and wait for luck to change.

Ernest Hemingway,

#83. Nothing except luck protects you from catastrophe. Not love. Not money. Not faith. Not a pure heart or good deeds
and not bad ones either, for that matter. We can, any of us, be laid low, cut down, diminished, destroyed.

Therese Anne Fowler

#84. I've just fallen on some bad luck and landed jelly side down.

Barbara Kingsolver

#85. Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

August Wilson

#86. To have access to literature, world literature, was to escape the prison of national vanity, of philistinism, of compulsory provincialism, of inane schooling, of imperfect destinies and bad luck.

Susan Sontag

#87. My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#88. You have better luck than you think you do," Cian said firmly.
Turning back toward him, she said, "Yeah? Prove it?"
You found me."
Yeah, and awakening your inner vampire, scaring the shit out of your
girlfriend, and screwing up your life."
Then that's my bad luck," he corrected her.

Rhiannon Frater

#89. Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

Rocko

#90. But that's the trouble with a drunk: if he gets excited he drinks too much, if he gets bored he drinks too much, if he has good luck he drinks too much, if he has bad luck he drinks too much, and so on.

Charles Bukowski

#91. The Revolution of 1848 found all the Rougons on the lookout, frustrated by their bad luck, and ready to use any means necessary to advance their cause. They were a family of bandits lying in wait, ready to plunder and steal.

Emile Zola

#92. [The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

Erykah Badu

#93. No matter how we grieve over our bad luck, nothing will happen. We have to smile and believe that tomorrow will be better than today.

Tachibana Higuchi

#94. Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

#95. People are just people, doing people things. Sometimes they're stupid, and sometimes they're desperate, and a lot of the time it's just bad luck. Don't get your knickers in a twist over people.

Claire North

#96. We drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.

Charles Bukowski

#97. If something bad happened just do this 3 things.First inhale second exhale and third accept that it happened.

Kenneth De Guzman

#98. The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

#99. Bean Throwing Day (Japan): Usually February 3 or q,. A day to toss away your bad luck and welcome good fortune. Try making a bean salad, then plant at least one of the beans in the earth near your home for providence all year.
So

Patricia J. Telesco

#100. Oh, I don't buy lottery tickets ... because if I won, and I was capable of that kind of odd luck, then I would also be equally capable of extremely bad luck, like getting struck by lightning, or falling out of window or something. I'd rather just not know.

Chrissi Sepe