Laura Lippman Quotes

I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma.

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

The only thing you have to worry about is bad luck. I never had bad luck.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.

I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you've had enough of that crap, so it's time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.

When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

You can be careful as far as you can, but you never know when you're going to fall over and break your ankle. It's like when you drive a car, you don't think about crashing, do you?

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.