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Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump

Luck is believing you're lucky.
Tennessee Williams

Being an actress is something that a large number of little girls hope to become, so to make it makes you feel like one of the lucky ones which of course you are
Caroline Farrell

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush

I score many lucky goals in my football life because I am always there, trying to shoot. For me the best goals are the ones like this when the ball just crosses the line.
Mateja Kezman

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Christopher Morley

I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.
Eric Avery

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion
Juvenal

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D Roosevelt

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E B White

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong

When he was included last summer I sent him a text to say good luck. There's nothing personal between us, we know that. It's a selection thing. [on him and Chris Read]
Geraint Jones

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King

An essayist is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted
Charles Poore

I feel that this is my year to win, as I've come so close in the past two series. But it is all down to the luck of the celebrity draw. Every year I do my best as I want to stay in the competition for as long as possible as I love it so much.
Ian Waite

'My family is my first priority but I don't think that means I should have to give up work. I am lucky that David is very supportive.'
Victoria Beckham

It was a day I'll never forget. I never thought I would see England regain the Ashes.

And my goodness me, didn't Kevin Pietersen capitalise on his luck? It was an astonishing performance. So many strokes! [2005 Ashes win for England]
Henry Blofeld

Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold

There's nothing cooler than being woken up by James Bond [on a good luck call from Sean Connery]
Andrew Murray

I have only one real hobby: my husband. [Either lucky or poor husband then!]
Florence Harding

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
Margaret Mead

With a bit of luck, the name Jimmy Brown will be engraved on the Masters trophy at the end of next week.
Jimmy White

I fought Sugar so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes.
Jake LaMotta

As an Australian I’m lucky that I have done a lot of camping here but I suspect nothing on the scale of what I’m going to face in the jungle
Kimberley Davies

He's very lucky. He's tall and very good looking, with a fabulous smile. He's charming and has eyes that are a little bit curious: always looking for something new and interesting. It's a great quality [on Prince Harry]
Mario Testino

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
Trey Parker

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.
Graham Taylor

Good luck to them. While we're not allowed to do it in New Zealand, they're obviously allowed to do it over here. Our policy is to produce the best cricket wickets possible, not ones that suit the home team. [on sour grapes over the wickets the games were played on]
John Bracewell

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
Christina Stead

A best friend is like a four leaf clover:hard to find and lucky to have.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
Richie Benaud

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.
Robbie Savage

I wouldn't put it down as a mistake, it was just a piece of very bad luck [on Paul Robinson missing the ball when clearing for England allowing an easy Croatia goal]
Pat Jennings

You can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it's good.
Ogden Nash

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.
Arthur Goldberg

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
Samuel Smiles

They saw me getting dressed through the window [unlucky view for some tree surgeons]
Tess Daly

Against her ankles as she trod
The lucky buttercups did nod
Jean Ingelow

He just said he had had enough and wished me good luck [on O'Sullivan conceding a match early!]
Stephen Hendry

My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.
Sylvie Guillem

What luck for rulers that men don't think
Adolf Hitler

It was not so much a lucky mascot any more. But my daughter, Chelsea, is glad to have him back
Stuart Pearce

I'm negotiating for him to stay. Emmanuel is lucky for me. He's more and more interested, and even sometimes puts pressure on me, because he says, 'Tin Tin' - that's what he calls me - 'You must win'
Justine Henin-Hardenne

I've had a lot of luck at BA - all of it bad.
Rod Eddington

Obviously we are very lucky to have got where we have, particularly when you realise that for many of our co-stars from Byker Grove their careers did not always take off in the same way.
Ant And Dec

Two honest and good-natured anglers have never met each other by the way without crying out, 'What luck?'
Henry Jackson Van Dyke

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F Scott Fitzgerald

The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews, Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here.
Jerry Seinfeld

I've been unlucky with injuries and have had four knee operations but I've got one of the best strike rates ever for England
Darren Gough



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