Stroke Of Luck Quotes

#1. Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.

Dana Gould

#2. I speak this way because I know how perilous speech can be ... A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk.

Galen Beckett

#3. Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#4. All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it ... The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.

Paul Virilio

#5. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Matthew Quick

#6. I had a stroke in 1985 ... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

Hugh Hefner

#7. The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Herodotus

#8. Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Dalai Lama XIV

#9. Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

Ryohgo Narita

#10. Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

Lorii Myers

#11. People with Asperger's couldn't control what they were interested in. It was a stroke of luck that his special interest was financial markets and not, say, collecting lawn mower catalogues.

Michael Lewis

#12. What a stroke of luck, that the woman he loves is also his wife.

Ian McEwan

#13. The origin of modern humanity was a stroke of luck - good for our species for a while, bad for most of the rest of life forever. All

Edward O. Wilson

#14. The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

Victoria Abril

#15. It's safe to say that Carroll's words weren't a stroke of luck, but of genius. Something in that book makes people relate. Wonderland must be real.

Cameron Jace

#16. Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

Todd Rundgren

#17. Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

Charlotte Bronte

#18. It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens.

Jeff Lindsay

#19. You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

Garrison Keillor

#20. He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

Bobby Jones