Stephen King Quotes

Luck is the grand equalizer.

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.

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

My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.

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

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

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.

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.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

The world runs on luck.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

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

Football works in mysterious ways.

There are no logical answers in football. That's just the way it goes.

Some days you're the fire hydrant, and some days you're the dog.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

Much in our lives is chance.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.