Timothy Zahn Quotes

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

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

Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

... a fool

I won't talk of bad luck. I don't believe in it.

Colby Covington is an idiot. He is so stupid.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I don't think I had enough imagination to be deceived; had no false hope, either. I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.

Have faith in your destiny

There is something in omens.

Good luck lies in odd numbers.

Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

I'm not superstitious. I don't really believe in star signs, sorry, or superstitions.

When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.