Paul Newman Quotes

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

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

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

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

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

I think in most sports sometimes you need a little luck for the ball or calls to roll your way.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

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

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.

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

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

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

Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.