Oscar Wilde Quotes, People Quotes, Luck Quotes

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Luck Quotes , Trying Quotes

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Heart Quotes , Luck Quotes

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

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Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Failure Quotes , Luck Quotes

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.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Luck Quotes

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Luck Quotes , Ignorant Quotes

Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Fate Quotes , Luck Quotes

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Luck Quotes , Doe Quotes

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Luck Quotes

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Breathing Quotes , Luck Quotes

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

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Tags : Abhinav Bindra Quotes , Luck Quotes , Training Quotes

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dream Quotes , Luck Quotes

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Luck Quotes , Paradise Quotes

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

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Tags : Adolf Galland Quotes , Successful Quotes , Luck Quotes

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Luck Quotes , Pieces Quotes

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , New Day Quotes , Luck Quotes

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

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Tags : Al Alvarez Quotes , Believe Quotes , Luck Quotes

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Luck Quotes , Literature Quotes

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Art Quotes , Luck Quotes