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Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had no luck at all


Alfred Edward Housman

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CHANNING POLLOCK The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to over...
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MICKEY HATCHER That's the worst luck we've had at Nebraska, I think, ever. I don't think Nebraska has ever lost a g...
BO RUUD I dont believe in luck. Ive only ever felt lucky finding God and even that was not by chance.
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IAN FLEMING We had a little string of bad luck and some hiccups here and there.
ALBERT HALDEMANN I rode out to the lake at 7 a.m. and one brave (cold) fellow was fishing but had no luck yet.
BILL COX We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up
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FRED W. FITCH I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.
S.D. LAWENDOWSKI We created plenty of chances. We had a good game, but we had no luck tonight.
GUY LACOMBE Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ...
IVAN GLASENBERG We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHERMORLEY It hasn't all been [bad] luck. They've had some good teams.
JEFF WHITTAKER So many people who have been nominated for an Oscar have had bad luck afterwards.
GIG YOUNG Luck is not as random as you think.

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VERA NAZARIAN Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than l...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI Luck is another name for God.
JIM GENOVESE We had some lucky breaks and some bad luck.
AI MIYAZATO All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right...
ROBERT COLLIER All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right ...
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ROBERT COLLIER It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luc...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Fate had a hand in it - luck had nothing to do with it.
TRUTH DEVOUR We finessed those a little to what Alfred had documented and what the curator had listed.
STACEY BALSLEY But no one needs to say anything to us because we are also very upset about it. Our luck will change...
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BOETHIUS (ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS) The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
PATRICK MACGILL I had the luck of having an obedient body.
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TOM KELLY Instead of the bull in the china shop, Bolton's more like the little boy who is audacious enough to ...
EDWARD LUCK I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the M...
EDWARD LUCK The idea of having a real transition period makes eminent sense, and most member states would tend t...
EDWARD LUCK One gets the impression that other countries are suspicious that the secretary general and his aides...
EDWARD LUCK Instead of the bull in the china shop, Bolton's more like the little boy who is audacious enough to ...
EDWARD LUCK So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeepi...
EDWARD LUCK It looks like it could be a real train wreck. It's a basic clash over who's in charge: Is it the Gen...
EDWARD LUCK through the back door.
EDWARD LUCK These people should have been put under a watch list; to let them creep back into procurement is the...
EDWARD LUCK It doesn't seem that the best time to start reform is when there's a major political crisis, ... In ...
EDWARD LUCK The reforms on the table really get to the meat of the matter, which is changing an institution envi...
EDWARD LUCK Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea. I think they would...
EDWARD LUCK Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
EDWARD LUCK Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.
EDWARD LUCK Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable an...
EDWARD LUCK To a race at a place that we had never run that well at before or never had good luck at before was ...
ELLIOTT SADLER I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The discarded soul-brides suffer in terrible agony; they have no luck at all.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB That late three-pointer in regulation, that was luck. The rest of their shooting, they had it on all...
ADONNA WEAVER The luck we've had has been kind of unexplainable, but this was a good rebound for us.
BUDDY RICE He who does not venture has no luck.
MEXICAN PROVERB It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the...
WINSTON CHURCHILL We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY My first three years I had injuries and bad luck a little bit. Now is a good chance to show what kin...
JIRI NOVOTNY For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw; There's little pleasure in the h...
WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Paul's had two-and-a-half years of solid performance. He's swung things around. I don't think that h...
HOWARD TUBIN My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life tha...
SAM SHEPARD I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON Luck is just another word for God's good grace.
JIM GENOVESE It was just plain good luck for the Biloxi and New Orleans areas, ... It meant that Katrina definite...
GREG HOLLAND Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparat...
DR. DAVID SCHWARTZ Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but prep...
DAVID JOSEPH SCHWARTZ Most criminals were dumb, and he took the view that the whole science of criminology was essentially...
JOHN CONNOLLY I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.
IDINA MENZEL Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
DARON MALAKIAN You always look at your heat and it's like, 'Wow! All these guys are so great.' There are so many fa...
ANDY NEWELL Joel has been a wonderful executive director for 15 years. He had a terrific opportunity in Houston,...
LEE ABRAHAM Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We haven't had much luck against them in my career here.
CHAD COMROE Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the bette...
ED BRADLEY I had an accident."

"That seemes to happen a lot."

"It wasn't my fault."
...
RICHELLE MEAD I hate to gain points like that, but that's plain racing luck, ... We have had bad luck this year, a...
CLINT BOWYER We really thought we had that game won, but luck didn't fall our way. We had a tough time getting ov...
ASHLEY LONCARICH We were in front of a team that had a great rhythm, was very fast and played a great game. Our group...
CARLO ANCELOTTI When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
ED HOWE When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
EDWARD W. HOWE When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck
EDGAR WATSON HOWE When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
E. W. HOWE You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHY If it's all Luck and no Diligence, you still have to apply for it.
PIYUSH LODHA I made it to state, probably because I've worked hard, and I've had some real good coaching with Bre...
JOSH BORDNER I don't think it was because I was playing against Housman that I had a good game. I think just he w...
IBRAHIM JAABER Luck was fine and well, but I didn't need it. I had a plan.
KIERA CASS Gates Chili has been struggling, we've had some bad luck and tonight we put both ends of the field t...
DAN MITCHELL It was a little bit luck and a little bit experience.
GIORGIO ROCCA It's a little bit of a knack and a little luck.
COLIN CHAULK I think all four can place if they wrestle to their capabilities. Obviously, at this level if you ge...
GEORGE BERGMAN They made a perfect takeout. You need some luck also to make that sort of shot and they had it.
MARKKU UUSIPAAVALNIEMI I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people thi...
GERRY COONEY I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck...
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To lie flat and know nothing and be still,
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And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, ...
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Are tied to sever.
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Were light and fleeting,
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But I know fairer far:
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Have willed more mischief than they durst:
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
ALFRED NOBEL God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
ALFRED JARRY The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the...
ALFRED SUTRO To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be ...
ALFRED JARRY Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is th...
ALFRED NOBEL Man know much more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t...
ALFRED ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi...
ALFRED ADLER I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any ho...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
ALFRED GLOSSBRENNER Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the ...
ALFRED JARRY Man knows more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
ALFRED ADLER There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ...
ALFRED ADLER Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
ALFRED NOBEL Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
ALFRED AUSTIN There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ...
ALFRED ADLER