Quotes About Gamble

This was my number 17 on the roulette wheel.

The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such a wonderful gamble. You didn't know what was going to happen to you. That was what made being a woman so exciting. No worry about what you should be or do - Biology would decide. You were waiting for The Man, and when the man came, he would change your entire life, you can say what you like, that is an exciting point of view to hold at the threshold of life.

Life was not a matter of safety— it must be hazarded to win the game.

For the stakes for which the guilty person was playing were enormous.

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

I think it's important to take chances.

I guess you can say I always liked to take chances. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.

I like to take chances.

The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.

To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than doom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.

Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off. The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival, strictly gene survival, but for many purposes individual survival is a reasonable approximation.

Prediction in a complex world is a chancy business. Every decision that a survival machine takes is a gamble, and it is the business of genes to program brains in advance so that on average they take decisions that pay off.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.

In the beginning, everything was even money.

If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

Everybody has something to lose. You have points to lose. You have money to lose. You have opportunity to lose.

Casinos invariably win because they push their money under the table, what remains over the table of their clients' evaporates eventually!

The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.