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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. -- Jonathan Coe
But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky. -- Jamie Redknapp
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. -- Duffy Daugherty
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. -- Samuel Butler
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky. -- Lee Trevino
Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Thirteen at a table is unlucky only, when the hostess has only twelve chops. -- Groucho Marx
Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you! -- Dr. Seuss
I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water. -- William G. Tapply
But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime. -- Ernie Davis
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull. -- Anne Michaels
You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine. -- Rick Bragg
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence. -- Margaret Mead
TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie. -- Dan Harmon
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. -- George Washington
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. -- Desiderius Erasmus
All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own patterns and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid. -- Iain Banks
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you! -- Dr. Seuss
He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded. -- Tennessee Williams
I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the reading says that I am in the unlucky day, I can think that my troubles are just because of my bad luck. Either ways, I can know the reason of my troubles. -- Hiroko Sakai
Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place. -- Richard Wiseman
I'm an unlucky charm... don't go anywhere with me. -- Sophie Turner
Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats. -- Andrew Bogut
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky. -- Eddie Slovik
Oh, boy. I'm still in touch with about 90 percent of my exes. They would describe me as being unlucky in love. -- Nathan Fillion
I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens. -- Henry Cavill
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! -- Siri Hustvedt
It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs. -- Poppy Delevingne
I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?' -- Jermain Defoe
I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage. -- Ian Mckellen
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door. -- Edward M. Lerner
We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina. -- Michel Patini
I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in when you're like: 'What am I supposed to write about now? I don't feel heartbroken, so now what?' -- Jenny Lewis
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake. -- Maeve Binchy
I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences. -- Chris Evans
I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make. -- Carl Barks
For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean). -- Douglas Hofstadter
In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have. -- Bharati Mukherjee
Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again. -- Monica Potter
We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact). -- Douglas Hofstadter
I'm the luckiest unlucky person. -- Tig Notaro
I was unlucky, like my country. -- Paul Keres
If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association. -- Mitch Hedberg
If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond. -- Decimius Magnus Ausonius
People choose bad at first then say we are unlucky . -- Muhammad Saqib
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. -- George Eliot
We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto. -- Amit Kalantri
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't. -- D. H. Lawrence
You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck. -- Bernie Ecclestone
There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky. -- Betty Smith
No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them... -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them. -- Ricky Gervais
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents. -- Patti Smith
It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid. -- Stephen Fry
Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover. -- Caprice Crane
It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off. -- Lu Xun
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all. -- Anand Neelakantan
For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May. -- Ovid
But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right? -- Cecelia Ahern
Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better. -- Henrik Larsson
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear. -- James Anthony Froude
Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell -- Drake
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them. -- Markus Zusak
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues. -- Emile M. Cioran
Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry. -- Robert Boyle
We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears. -- Wong Kar-wai
I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me. -- Mary Ruefle
As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born â?? and particularly bad luck it is. -- David Benatar
the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape -- W. H. Auden
Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent. -- Marilyn vos Savant
There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens. -- Confucius
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius. -- Dan Simmons
[Tiger Woods ] been unlucky with his body. I don't know whether some of it is self-induced or some of it is just unlucky. But we never know what happens with guys. -- Jack Nicklaus
Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions. -- Condoleezza Rice
And the heart sounds like a sour conch,calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:the sea reports sonorouslyon its languid shadows, its green poppies. -- Pablo Neruda
According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame. -- Hannah Arendt
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people. -- Voltaire
All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky. -- Berry Gordy
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money. -- Christina Stead

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