Orson Welles Quotes

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

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs.

I'd rather have luck on my side than anything else.

Sometimes you need luck to score.

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

People don't always get what they deserve in this world.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

I believe in destiny, God's hand and hard work.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

We are the playthings of the gods.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

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.

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

I am a great believer in luck.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.