Pastoral Resources

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

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

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

I still have horrible luck with girls.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.