#luck

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#first #luck #others #out #people

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky? ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#believe #get #just #kind #lucky

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision. ↗

— Howard Schultz

#ascribe #believe #day #future #i

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#again #books #feel #friends #happened

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village. ↗

— Michael Scott

#bookstore #christian #here #into #learn

When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#american pie #clockwork #films #genre #get

I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#asked #cartoons #draw #i #lucky

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#era #get #granny #into #lucky

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy. ↗

— Paul Simon

#any #describe #emotional #fans #feel

Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#amazing thing #best #birth #giving #had