Peter Ustinov Quotes

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong.

Something will turn up.

I've been pretty blessed. Sometimes it comes in disguise.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.

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

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

Everything that happens to us has a blessing built into it.

I remain the luckiest guy I know.

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

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

You know, it's funny, no matter what I do - I mean, you're always going to have negatives and positives.

Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had tremendous hope in me.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

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

Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

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