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"Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"
"A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt, there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk."
"Luck is the grand equalizer."
"We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up."
"I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true."
"Never buy anything simply because it is expensive."
"The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life."
"Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the demand is for skill."
"Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays."
"The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck."
"Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps."
"Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't."
"I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters."
"Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down."
"But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if we start getting together and talking, after a while something like Francis Lai’s soundtrack music will start playing in the background, and a whole slew of concrete reasons why I’m interested in you will line up out of nowhere. With luck, it might even snow for us."
"I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie."
"We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know."
"I suspect there really was more to my accident than bad luck. I think it was God's way of punishing my nose."
"Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done."
"Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string."
