Top 100 Luck Bad Luck Quotes
#1. Bill did not believe in luck. Bad luck or good. Bill knew it was never a matter of luck, never a question of luck. Bill knew luck was just another excuse for failure.
David Peace
#2. There's a moon now, almost full. Good luck for owls; bad luck for rabbits, who often choose to cavort riskily but sexily in the moonlight, their brains buzzing with pheromones.
Margaret Atwood
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.
Jonathan Stroud
#6. That's bad luck: three on a midget. From At The Circus
Groucho Marx
#7. I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright
#8. I know this - a man got to do what he got to do, I can't tell you. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in the worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella's life. He got to do it all hisself, Help im, maybe, but not tell him what to do.
John Steinbeck
#10. Those with bad luck should at least attempt to balance it with good sense.
Joe Abercrombie
#12. 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
#13. Bad luck is actually a chance for us to make up some time. We're like runners who train on hills, or at an altitude so they can beat the runners who expected the course would be flat.
Ryan Holiday
#14. 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
#15. Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
Wesley Morris
#16. SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.
Henry Spencer
#17. If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.
Jandy Nelson
#18. The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.
Neil Peart
#19. You make your own luck. Some people have bad
luck all their lives.
Casey Stengel
#20. What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? They are all opinions,
Ryan Holiday
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Most folk consider that a woman aboard a ship brings nothing but bad luck because it provokes the jealousy of Ran, the goddess of the sea who will abide no rivals,
Bernard Cornwell
#26. Sounds pretty bad. Are you sure about this?"
"Oh, I'm sure."
"Well, I don't know what we can do to prepare, except say our prayers."
"Good luck with that, Herb. God died in 1945.
Natalie Standiford
#27. We do not consider the kingdom damned," Lord August said politely. "We prefer not to use that word."
"What would you call it, Lord August?" Finnikin asked. "A little magic? A slight curse? A bit of bad luck?
Melina Marchetta
#28. Thomson: "Just our luck! The one time we manage to catch the culprits they turn out to be innocent! It's really too bad of them!"
Thompson: "You'd think they'd done it on purpose!
Herge
#29. In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
Loretta Lynn
#30. 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
#31. Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.
Stephen King
#32. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks
Toni Morrison
#34. We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters
Joe Abercrombie
#35. There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.
Anthony Doerr
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Roth was irritated. Just because he was a Jew too, they always assumed he felt the same way about things. It made him feel a little frustrated. No doubt some of his bad luck had come because he was one, but that was unfair; it wasn't as if he took an interest, it was just an accident of birth.
Norman Mailer
#40. Most people die old, full of pain and regret. Or young and full of drugs and self-indulgence - or sheer bad luck.
Caroline Kepnes
#41. 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
#42. Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.
Charles Bukowski
#43. Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action.
Nabil Basma
#44. 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
#45. Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind
#46. Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
Bertolt Brecht
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Joseph Heller
#51. 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
#52. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love
Gregory David Roberts
#53. Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.
John Lyman Chatfield
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.
Rocko
#57. Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
Don Shula
#58. Good luck is abnormal
bad luck is common
Yarro Rai
#59. 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
#60. A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
Margery Allingham
#61. 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
#62. Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previously
died in a car accident.
Anthony Liccione
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. When a black cat crosses your path, follow it. Understand the knowable unknown.
Lionel Suggs
#67. 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
#68. Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
Thucydides
#69. I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
Patrick Murray
#70. It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.
Naomi Novik
#71. You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.
Margaret Atwood
#72. Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
Tig Notaro
#73. We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.
Russell Crowe
#74. That was one of the most rewarding things about spending nights in the open. Birds were bound to wake you up, and whether they carried good or bad luck, at least they woke you up with music.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#75. Trying to rely on the sheer good luck of avoiding bad outcomes indefinitely would simply guarantee that we would eventually fail without the means of recovering.
David Deutsch
#76. Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.
Anita Shreve
#77. Even at its worst, there are tiny holes in the midnight canopy of my bad luck.
Mike Carey
#79. Except science now tells us that luck is there whether you acknowledge it or not. And I'm afraid in your case I see the signs of a history of bad luck. Not even a latency so much as a full-blown case going completely ignored for lack of context.
Jonathan Lethem
#80. I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.
Charlie Cox
#81. At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
Ian Fleming
#82. There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
Albert Camus
#83. Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad - they're all constructs of your mind.
Tom Bergeron
#84. When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.
Sarah Kendzior
#85. I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
Kristen Stewart
#86. In times of Distress..We have two choices....
Either 'worry' our head off,cry and feel bad
OR
Just sit back,relax our mind and body...and ASK
Let's See How BAD is the BAD LUCK
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#87. The fault lies with us, and only us. It's not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it's definitely not Mom and Dad. Ultimately it's us and our choices ... but the most powerful spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well.
Louise Penny
#88. Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.
Mark Twain
#90. Give me another Chance
Then,
You will Get
Less than I Gain...
Hasil Paudyal
#91. It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.
John Flanagan
#92. The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy
Jacob Zuma
#93. You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that's your bad luck.
Michael Frayn
#94. It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the party and try to fix things internally because those who do leave they will attract the wrath of the ancestors, who will also bring that person bad luck
Jacob Zuma
#95. Despite my height, ignorance, heartbreaks, insecurity, criticism, competition, my skin color, that voice in my head that says 'No way', bad luck, a tight budget, insults, fear, flaws, failure and opposition. I believe in myself.
Manasa Rao
#96. Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3?
Tara Ford
#97. A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
Thomas Hood
#98. Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.
Swami Vivekananda
#99. I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.
Randall Dale Adams
#100. Are the hormones as bad as everyone says they are?" I asked him to change the subject.
He looked at up to me his brown eyes widened as he understood what I meant. Finally he grinned.
"That explains it."
"So, is that yes?
"That is ... good luck.
J.J. McAvoy
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