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  • There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

    Rip   Greed   Luck  
    Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.456, Simon and Schuster
  • Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

    Art   Knowing   Creative  
  • My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

    Tangled   Decision   Luck  
    Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.225, Penguin
  • You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

    Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.113, Simon and Schuster
  • I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

    Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press
  • I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.

    Source: www.levity.com
  • Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'

    "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.
  • The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.

    Luck   Comfort   Dungeons  
    Twitter post from Jun 04, 2013
  • It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

    People   History   Luck  
  • I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

    Country   Car   Luck  
  • I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

    Happiness   Happy   God  
    Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.182, Chartwell
  • Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends, the daylight stars we never get to see? Bad luck never takes a vacation, my friend once wrote. It lies there among the broken shells and stones we collect, a story he would say begins with you, with me, a story that is forever lost among the backwaters of our lives, our endless fear of ourselves, and our endless need for hope, a story, perhaps an answer, a word suddenly on wing, the simple sound of a torn heart, or the unmistakable scent of the morning's fading moon.

    Beach   Morning   Stars  
  • Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.

    Sex   Betrayal   War  
  • To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

    Inspiration   Men   Hands  
  • The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

    Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.41, Random House
  • The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you know, bad luck as well as good luck, keep people focused on what the key, you know, business wins are, and you know, provide the energy that people always need in order to, you know, to go into battle because, you know, work is hard and go into work and do that well. And provide a good leadership beacon for that. In other words, it's the same thing that makes good leadership in any other time.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.

    Children   Mistake   Men  
    Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins
  • I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

    Strong   Sorry   Team  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I was always lucky in my bad luck.

    Luck   Lucky   Bad Luck  
    Bohumil Hrabal (2007). “I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)”, p.83, New Directions Publishing
  • Well, well-run companies always have a focus on growth and the two lines, which includes profit. The key thing during, I think, tough times, is to make sure that you've covered the basis for when something, you know, essentially things taking longer, bad luck, adversity, other kinds of circumstances may occur. Make sure that you can monitor to win, it's potentially, you know, something is going to go wrong, monitor early enough, and then take appropriate action to essentially counteract that or shift your strategy or plan, even if in fact something is not working out as well as it is.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.

    Taken   Order   People  
    Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.222, BoD – Books on Demand
  • A stout heart breaks bad luck.

    Heart   Luck   Break  
    Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.601, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

    Easter   Sunday   Dark  
  • It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.

    Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
  • Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

    Luck   Reason   Modern  
  • It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.

    Sarah Ban Breathnach (2006). “Moving on: Creating Your House of Belonging with Simple Abundance”, p.14, Meredith Books
  • If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

    'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3
  • The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."

    People   Luck   Mind  
    Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.44, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA
  • There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

    Heart   Fighting   Dry Up  
    Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage
  • Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

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