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“Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Different Able Forget Lucky Sections Unlucky Contractions

Author:Monica Potter

“There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.”

People Able Turns Events Lucky Advantage Accidents Foolish Clever Reap Disadvantages So Lucky Unlucky

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.”

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Book:Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists

Source: Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists

“A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.”

Way Persons Book Moments Values Fall Lucky Independent Fortune Accidents Precise Unlucky Happy Accidents

Book:The Works of Walter Pater

Source: The Works of Walter Pater

“I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the reading says that I am in the unlucky day, I can think that my troubles are just because of my bad luck. Either ways, I can know the reason of my troubles.”

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Author:Hiroko Sakai

“An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.”

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Author:Solon

“Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.”

Believe Four Worst Lucky Luck Stealing Leafs Unlucky Clovers No Such Thing As Luck Four Leaf Clover

Book:With a Little Luck: A Novel

Source: With a Little Luck: A Novel

“All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.”

People Ifs Artist Lucky Lawyer Managers Runners Unlucky

Author:Berry Gordy

“I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.”

Enough Understanding Taught Lucky Sake Scholar Exam Unlucky Love Of Learning

Author:Maeve Binchy

“The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.”

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Author:Eugene Fama

“If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.”

Ifs Proud Lucky Luck Unlucky

Author:Decimius Magnus Ausonius

“If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.”

People Ifs Feelings Asks Decision Trouble Information Lucky Luck Instinct Uncomfortable Pushing Unlucky Tuning Uncomfortable Feeling Pushing Away

Author:Martha Beck

“I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.”

Wells Enough Actors My Own Lucky Regard Good Life Life Experience Ups & Downs Unlucky Lots Of Friends

Author:Chris Evans

“It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.”

People Has Beens Lucky Prejudice Luck Invention Ignorant Vain Ancestor Priesthood Unlucky Ignorant People

Author:Voltaire

“We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!”

Today Lucky Yesterday Unlucky

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.”

Ifs Writing Enough Tvs Lucky Meetings Vegas Las Vegas Casinos Unlucky

Author:Dan Harmon

“I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.”

Writing Enough Able Lucky Unlucky

Book:Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.”

Men Whole Would Be America White Mistake One Thing Land Amount Lucky Population Prosperity Native White Man Indigenous Unlucky Great Mistakes

Author:Amartya Sen

“Everybody would like to be good, that's the silly thing, everybody always likes it when they're having a nice time or when they're happy or when it's sunny, they all dig it; but then they go and forget about it, they never really try to make it nice. They think that it just comes along and it's nice if you're lucky, or if you're unlucky it's bad for you.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Forget Nice Lucky Be Good Silly Likes Sunny Unlucky Silly Things Nice Time

Author:George Harrison

“Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.”

Seems Action Given Stars Lucky Blame Dues Our Actions Unlucky Commendation

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.”

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Author:Lee Trevino

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