Anita Shreve Quotes

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

You can't really explain why things happen.

Football works in mysterious ways.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.