"[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future."
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"I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck."
"I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck."
"Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in."
"You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck."
"I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since."
"If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time."
"When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there."
"Perseverance brings good luck."
"we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow."
"Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad."
"Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck."
"One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others."
"I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started."
"The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it."
"Oh, I am fortune's fool!"
"I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way."
"There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what is more, a readiness to be pleased with the other's ways; a sense on each side of having had the better of the bargain; an undercurrent of surprise and thankfulness at one's good luck."
"I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get."
"it is so difficult not to become vain about one's own good luck."