L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.”
“Luck was a mechanism to be devised, and luck and destiny were merely two sides of the same coin.”
Source: King of Fools
“Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.”
Source: The Sisters Brothers
“Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.”
“Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.”
Source: Emma
“Luck whines; labor whistles.”
Source: Thrift
“Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.”
Source: A Shropshire Lad
“Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.”
“Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka.”
Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole: The Dark Tower IV-1/2
“Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.”
Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922
“Luck, be a lady tonight.”
“Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.”
“Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.”
Source: The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality
“Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.”
Source: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
“Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.”
Source: The Second Tom Holt Omnibus
“Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.”
“Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.”
Source: The Pearl
“Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.”
“Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.”
“Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”
“Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”
“Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.”
“Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.”
Source: The Halfling's Gem: The Legend of Drizzt
“Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.”
Source: Medea
“Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.”
Source: A Roving Commission
“Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.”
“Luckily, common sense had never been a strong suit of mine and my feet moved
faster than my brain.”
Source: An Airship Named Desire
“Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly accepted - it was a way out of the embarrassment of facing likely defeat. They still have the option of bombing if they want to. And incidentally, to add one comment about this, you'll notice that this would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East.”
“Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.”
“Luckily for me, I didn't know precisely what it was that I'd done to merit a visit from our pack's leader. There were any number of possibilities, none of which I wanted to openly admit on the off chance that there was something I'd done that he hadn't found out yet.”
Source: Raised by Wolves
“Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.”
“Luckily for me, I became a rap star so I'm making enough money to support my family. It's funny because that may seem like the only way that I can do such a task.”
“Luckily for me, most of my work is through a brand or client who approaches my agent. Before I began modeling, I never realized how many barriers there were for people with disabilities within the industry. I didn't realize how much prejudice and ignorance existed. That made me even more determined to break down the barriers and to wake up the industry to the fact that beauty shows up in all different shapes, sizes and abilities.”
“Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.”
“Luckily for us, I've never met a bad idea I did not immediately embrace like the dearest of friends.”
Source: All In
“Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.”
“Luckily for you, you can close the book The Postman Always Rings Twice and break out of it, and James M. Cain can't. I can't think of any redeeming feature he has, but he's extremely compelling.”
“Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.”
Source: The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician
“Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.”
“Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them!”
“Luckily I had just finished a Marvel film so I was already in a training mentality and then this movie happened and I was really just trying to focus on like as much cardio as possible because in this film I do a lot of running and a lot of running in 100 degree heat in Austinit was like a sprintit was very much like all one shot running around, sprinting. So I had to build up my cardio to be able to get to that place and also not to like, die.”
“Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.”
“Luckily, I have music and books to calm the pandemonium in my head.”
Source: The Only Girl in the World
“Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'”
“Luckily I stayed in shape due to wrestling.”
“Luckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I was not. But in Israel, communists were dissidents. So you grow up in an environment which is very critical of Israeli policies.”
“Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much.”
“Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.”
“Luckily my fans are so lovely and I haven't really had to - what's the phrase? - "Clap back at the trolls?" Every now and then I do get a troll that mentions my skin color and calls me ugly names, though, like "Dark Monkey." Most of the time those people have their pages blocked, or you can't even see their profile picture. I can't focus on that. What I've realized is that I have the power to control how I feel about what they say.”
“Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.”