Quotes About Lottery

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!

I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.

One way to do that is to be wary of seeing the issue in absolutist terms. Immigration is generally good for America. But that doesn't mean it's good at every level and in all varieties. America's absorptive capacity is great but not unlimited, and not every migrant is as easily absorbed as Rosalie. There's a place for principled compromise. Legal status for the Dreamers is crucial; the diversity lottery is not.

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.

Uma coisa ele sabia que tinha perdido: a flor da vida. Mas pensava nela como uma coisa tão inantingível e improvável que lamentar-se seria como desesperar porque não se ganhou o primeiro prémio da lotaria. Havia cem milhões de bilhetes na sua lotaria e só um prémio. As chances foram todas definitivamente contra ele.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

It's been suggested that if the super-naturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television? By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Your chances of winnin' the lottery get a lot better if you buy a ticket.

I had worried about this possibility. Sometimes I think that my worrying about something means it will automatically come true. Maybe I should worry about winning the lottery.

Here's something to think about How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'

How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

He won a free teeth-bleaching, upper and lower arches, in a dentist's lottery. It explained his too-easy grin and his drinking coffee through a straw during what would later be classified as our first date.

Há uma piada italiana muito engraçada sobre um homem pobre que vai todos os dias à igreja rezar diante da estátua de um grande santo, implorando: «Querido santo, por favor, por favor, por favor... dá-me a graça de ganhar a lotaria.» Este lamento continua durante meses. Por fim, a estátua exasperada ganha vida, olha para ele e diz com um ar fatigado: «Meu filho, por favor, por favor, por favor... compra um bilhete.»

En mi destino hay muchas cosas que se me escapan, pero hay otras que sí están bajo mi jurisdicción. Hay una serie de billetes de lotería que puedo comprar, aumentando mis posibilidades de llegar a ser feliz.

I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would suggest you're a bad person - if you're wealthy, if you've done well, oh, you must be bad. And frankly, winning the lottery doesn't change who you are; you're the same person inside. And I'm the same person I was as an 18-year-old who fell in love with Ann.

IT'S WEIRD starting over from zero. It changes the scale of your ambitions. Instead of fantasizing about what kind of mansion you'll buy when you win the lottery, you ask yourself, Do I own socks? Do I have a toothbrush? Do I have a shirt that's not covered in blood?

The Power Poker lottery would be won by a person having no ties to any Chicago street gangs or terrorists—Joe Normal.

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

I cringed a little at the position of power I'd been granted, and all because I had won at the genetic lottery that had determined my sex.

science says that nobody is ever made happy by getting a promotion, winning the lottery or even finding true love. People are made happy by one thing and one thing only - pleasant sensations in their bodies

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.