Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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.
There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
The problem that people don't understand is that active managers, almost by definition, have to be poorly diversified. Otherwise, they're not really active. They have to make bets. What that means is there's a huge dispersion of outcomes that are totally consistent with just chance. There's no skill involved it. It's just good luck or bad luck.
I won't talk of bad luck. I don't believe in it.
The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.
Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.
I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
I'm not a bad man.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
No bad man can be a good poet.
