How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self interest.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

I still have horrible luck with girls.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Care and diligence bring luck.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.

Luck's always to blame.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.