#of

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#chances #found #i #luck #more

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#dollars #gamble #give #give me #great

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

#bad luck #ball #balls #bounce #bouncing

I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#before #fathers #get #glad #grandfathers

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#always #because #characters #communities #dramatic

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed. ↗

— Robert Trout

#american republic #based #because #been #could

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. ↗

— Alice Walker

#insults #intended #long #long time #made

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#both sides #country #few #high #high office

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#conductors #eight #i #i can #lost

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#lost #never #off #passenger #ran