Luckless Quotes

#1. Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts of beautiful country, pleasant camps, and happy campfires.

Fred Bear

#2. If you believe in "luck", always let it be good luck.
Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless".
Be "happy", rather than "hapless".

Donald L. Hicks

#3. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Prostitution demoralizes men far more than women. Prostitution does not degrade the whole female sex, but only the luckless women that become its victims, and even those not to the extent generally assumed. But it degrades the character of the entire male world.

Friedrich Engels

#5. Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.

Adam Haslett

#6. When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.

Charles McCarry

#7. Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.

Cyrano De Bergerac

#8. I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

William Faulkner

#9. Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

Archibald Hill

#10. RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. We have a nasty habit of flushing down the memory hole "the people who lost." Or demonizing them. Going back in time and painting Snidely Whiplash mustaches on their luckless countenances.

Bill Kauffman

#12. They were a pair of white mice, I thought - only Kitsey was a spun-sugar, fairy-princess mouse whereas Andy was more the kind of luckless, anemic, pet-shop mouse you might feed to your boa constrictor. "Get

Donna Tartt

#13. To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.

Thomas Carlyle

#14. Such is the fate of simple Bard,
On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

Robert Burns

#15. Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.

Joanna Baillie

#16. She felt like one of the luckless peasant girls in some Russian hagiography, left to fend for her family in deep Siberian snows.
Ever a logical girl, she didn't like where the hints all around were leading her.

Liz Braswell

#17. Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

Pablo Neruda

#18. It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.

Herbert J. Muller

#19. INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

Ambrose Bierce

#20. Luckless is that country in which the symbols of procreation are held in horror!' he wrote, 'while the agents of destruction are revered!

Rikki Ducornet

#21. Goodbye my almost lover, goodbye my hopeless dream, I'm tryin not to think about you, Can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you, should've known you'd bring me heartbreak, almost lovers always do

A Fine Frenzy

#22. Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

Clare Boothe Luce

#23. I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life

Anamika Mishra

#24. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

George Eliot

#25. When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

James Callis

#26. When you love there is no 'I', so you cannot say 'I love you', only love is.

Ivan Rados

#27. Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did:
Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.

Malcolm X

#28. I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

Tracy Morgan

#29. But finally, into the world came a baby girl, just as, I'm very, very sorry to say, her mother, and my sister, slipped away from the world after a long night of suffering - but also a night of joy, as the birth of a baby is always good news, no matter how much bad news the baby will hear later.

Lemony Snicket

#30. Hillary Clinton has reportedly accepted Barack Obama's offer to become secretary of state. That's what they're saying in the New York Times. Yeah, according to Bill Clinton, this is the first time in 20 years that Hillary has said 'yes.'

Conan O'Brien

#31. Death Changes ones life in more ways than anyone could imagine! T.B

Tawana Beecham

#32. Thought creates character.

Annie Besant

#33. What is the sign of every literary decadence? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and leaps out of the sentence, the sentence reaches out and obscures the meaning of the page, the page gains life at the expense of the whole - the whole is no longer a whole.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#34. What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

M. Scott Peck