Quotes About Gamble

Can I trade this job for what's behind door 2?

I think of the novelist Haruki Murakami, who compares writing a novel to digging a hole through deep rock to reach a source of water. To access mystery and intuition requires hard work and is a gamble, for there is no guarantee that we will find that source of water.

Don't regret having lost your money; maybe, if you kept it, it would have lost you.

The only time you don't have a chance is when you don't take a chance.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

Be real. I'm going up against three of the world's most vicious ubervillains. I have a very, very slim chance of survival. I have a better chance of winning the lottery, and I don't even play.

Fortune helps the brave.

The brave venture anything.

All games contain the idea of death.

I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.

And so we went to the Panamint, where Death had gone to gamble and had, as always, won.

The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you're playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does.

I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'

The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

In short, the first Trinity test at Alamogordo constituted a conscious gamble by the senior scientists at Los Alamos and their immediate superiors: a gamble with the fate of every sentient being on the face of the planet and in the atmosphere and the depths of the oceans.

I gambled when I left QPR to go to Aston Villa half-way through the season when we were winning every Championship game, and that paid off. You just get a sense inside you, and you have to go.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.