Quotes About Gamble

For three days, Shandy Gamble had been lying on his back in the Perigord House awaiting the stranger in the black mustache. Nichols, his name was, and if they were ever going to start cattle buying they had better be moving. The season was already late.

We would all be together on the journey then, our destination the village at the end of the road where people gamble day and night but never lose their money, eat but never fill their stomachs, drink but never leave their minds.

he was betting the future of his firm on one roll of the dice.

words / hazard all

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss...

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Ma foi," said Danglars, "it would not be a bad speculation

Mais dans ce monde il faut bien risquer quelque chose.

Digo que el amor es una lotería en la que el que gana, gana la muerte. Sois muy afortunado por haber perdido, creedme, mi querido D'Artagnan. Y si tengo algún consejo que daros, es perder siempre.

An old man – utterly alone – he had staked his all on a throw – and lost.

Love is a gamble, the stake is the human heart. The lover holds his or her cards close, lays them out one at a time and watches each move of the other player. To whom do you go first? This is the 'tell' of love. When a thing happens, be it good or bad, when you pick up the telephone or push through a crowd, who is it you most want to reach?

You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you? -Sand dan Glokta

When you're down to small stakes, you have to play long odds.

Vurms stopped in his tracks. "You wouldn't dare!" Glokta smiled. His most revolting, leering, gap-toothed smile. "You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you?

Horse racing is not so much a business as it is a calling. The work requires too much time and energy to pursue it with anything less than utter passion; and even then, the odds against success can seem practically insurmountable.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

What is life, but one long risk?

Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

On every birthday, when I wake, I now take out the old Nagan, load it with one bullet, spin the chamber and pull the trigger with the barrel in my mouth. I've cheated death nine times. It is my greatest achievement. And three months to go to my next birthday. I can't wait.

When you gamble with safety, you bet your life.

Chance takers are accident makers.

wanted him to know what it felt like … to gamble for his life,' Anne said. 'I left his hand free so that he could toss the coin. I told him to call and that if he got it right, I would let him go.