Pastoral Resources

The luck will alter and the star will rise.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

I have great luck. I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. Like, whenever people go off on a trip, I save their phone messages because I think they might die.

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.

I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.

But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.

Well, it is certainly not by choice at this time you don't see or hear about me. This business is very unpredictable. A lot of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

Good night, and good luck.

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.