The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
Derek Walcott

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?
David McCullough

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Alice James

The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
Bob Goodlatte

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Rodney Dangerfield

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
Joyce Carol Oates

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.
Glenn Tipton

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul Sartre

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
Lakhdar Brahimi

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
E. M. Forster

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.
Richard Dawson

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
Whoopi Goldberg

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.
Amelia Barr

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

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Patrick MacGill

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
Joel Chandler Harris

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau

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

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