Top 100 Quotes About Bad Luck
#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. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in this 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 him, maybe, but not tell him what to do.
John Steinbeck
#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. When bad luck comes around, your reaction to it is a combination of how bad the luck is plus how prepared your body is for the stress.
Anonymous
#5. Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.
Jim Corbett
#6. 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
#7. I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck.
Ernest Hemingway,
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.
Walter Mosley
#11. Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.
Stephen King
#12. Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
Brian Tracy
#13. Good luck gets a bad rap due to superstitions.
Ashwin Sanghi
#14. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck
Sanhita Baruah
#15. You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.
Winston Churchill
#16. And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.
Jonathan Stroud
#17. 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
#18. There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.
Lyle Lovett
#19. That's bad luck: three on a midget. From At The Circus
Groucho Marx
#20. 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
#21. I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Happy," for instance, once meant "luck." Not good luck or bad, just luck. Look what we have done to ourselves. We think we can actually pursue happiness.
Abigail Thomas
#26. The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.
Peter Senge
#28. Those with bad luck should at least attempt to balance it with good sense.
Joe Abercrombie
#29. 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
#31. 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
#32. second rule, learned from a lifetime of bad luck and trouble: Maintain a little dignity.
Lee Child
#33. Height of bad luck will be ... when I will dare to kiss a prince and he will turn into a frog.
Upasana Banerjee
#34. 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
#35. They were daughters of the sky. Luck belonged to them - never bad, often good, sometimes hard.
C.J. Milbrandt
#36. Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.
Donna Tartt
#37. One piece of bad luck was rapid technical change, which was a weapon that oddball upstarts could use against the enormous gray corporations.
Michael Lewis
#38. 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
#39. She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
Jodi Picoult
#40. When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One of the lessons they're learning is that "life" happens to everyone.
Jan Spiller
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.
Webb Simpson
#46. 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
#47. Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
Wesley Morris
#48. 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
#49. The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
#50. SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.
Henry Spencer
#52. If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.
Jandy Nelson
#53. The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.
Mike Liut
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. The cure for her happiness was not bad luck, but to make her happier inside. Esmeralda
Tess Uriza Holthe
#57. You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.
Bill Watterson
#58. I've no sympathy with people to whom things happen. It may be that their luck is bad, but is that to count in their favor? I
Cormac McCarthy
#59. I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.
Lee Child
#60. Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
Doris Lessing
#61. Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.
Hunter S. Thompson
#63. Things rarely go exactly as we expect, but in the long run, they work out well for those who love God. His plan is higher than ours.
Elizabeth B. Knaus
#65. Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.
Nora Roberts
#66. You make your own luck. Some people have bad
luck all their lives.
Casey Stengel
#67. 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
#68. When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
Chad Kroeger
#69. What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? They are all opinions,
Ryan Holiday
#70. 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
#72. In the card game you don't know your card lucky for you or bad for you this is depend on your luck.
AbdulNasir
#73. Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.
Herta Muller
#74. 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
#75. Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.
Donald G. Firesmith
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Sometimes before your luck can be good,someone else's has to be bad
Maisie Mosco
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. A black cat crossing the road is considered bad luck in some cultures. What about the cat's culture?
Anno Nomius
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.
James Cook
#89. If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
Luis Bunuel
#90. 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
#91. A challenge to your bad luck is your confidence. Your confidence, you and your patience is your good luck.
Dhiraj Das
#92. 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
#93. 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
#95. 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
#96. Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.
Rohit Shetty
#97. In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
Loretta Lynn
#98. 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
#99. Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.
Stephen King
#100. Lord, have mercy! Crazy cowboys who bought a bad luck ranch were definitely not supposed to be that sexy.
Carolyn Brown
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