Luck

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  • Luck is what you have left over after you give 100%.
        Langston Coleman   Best?
  • This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Anatomy is destiny.
        Sigmund Freud   Best?
  • Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
        Heloise   Best?
  • Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
        Horace   Best?
  • Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
        Sun Tzu   Best?
  • You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
        Aeschylus   Best?
  • Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
        Aeschylus   Best?
  • A man's character is his fate.
        Heraclitus   Best?
  • Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.
        Homer   Best?
  • For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
        Ernest Hemingway   Best?
  • I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
        Laurence J. Peter   Best?
  • When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
        Rita Rudner   Best?
  • The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
        Bernard Avishai   Best?
  • As a USENET discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
        Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogie   Best?
  • For John Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinking without transcendental justification: attending to the ruptures and irregularities in existence before the metaphysics of presence has a chance to smooth them over. Radical Hermeneutics forges a closer collaboration between the hermeneutics and deconstruction than has previously been attempted.
        ad for 'Radical Hermeneutics'   Best?
  • I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
        Thomas Love Peacock   Best?
  • Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
        E.W. Howe   Best?
  • A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
        Robert Chapman   Best?
  • There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.
        Steve Martin   Best?
  • Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature.
        Henry Albert Ben   Best?
  • It's not that I don't enjoy it, but it's kind of like a trip to Disneyland. You get so excited about a ride on the Matterhorn, and then when it's over, you realize you wasted all that time in line for a minute and a half upside down and the chance to throw up.
        Murphy Brown   Best?
  • Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.
        Marc Maihueird   Best?
  • When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done.
        Kin Hubbard   Best?
  • I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • People may like what third-party candidates say, because often they are the only ones saying anything, but they usually won't vote for someone who doesn't have a chance. Since third-party candidates are not in the news, they are considered to be not really in the race; and since they are not in the race, this justifies treating them as if they are not news.
        Michael Parenti   Best?
  • Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
        Samuel Johnson   Best?
  • I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
  • Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
        Garrison Keillor   Best?
  • Here's to our wives and sweethearts - may they never meet.
        John Bunny   Best?
  • Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
        Honore De Balzac   Best?
  • Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
        Christopher Isherwood   Best?
  • It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.
        Martin Cruz Smith   Best?
  • Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.
        Admiral Hyman Rickover   Best?
  • A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you will see the electron.
        Richard Feynman   Best?
  • War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
        John Stuart Mill   Best?

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