You dont just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. – Barbara Bush
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing ones ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. – Victor Cherbuliez
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you werent getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? – Robert Downey, Jr.
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. – Sallust
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. – Ann Romney
