Francis Bacon Quotes, Luck Quotes, Trying Quotes

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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Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

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Tags : Adi Da Quotes , Luck Quotes , Weight Quotes

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

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He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Luck Quotes , Coward Quotes

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

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It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

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Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Luck Quotes

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

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Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

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

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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Luck Quotes , Influence 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

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

Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Luck Quotes , World 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

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Expectations 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

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Life Lesson Quotes , Luck Quotes