Gambled Quotes

#1. My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.

Tom Berenger

#2. Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run - but it could just as easily cost you everything.

Joanna Shupe

#3. I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

Charles Baudelaire

#4. Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Arthur H. Compton

#5. It's as if you'd gambled away almost all your money and decided, What the hell, I'll bet what's left

Haruki Murakami

#6. My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas.

Don Rickles

#7. Best definition of "investing" is "gambling with the odds in your favor." The people on the short side of the subprime mortgage market had gambled with the odds in their favor. The people on the other side - the entire financial system, essentially - had gambled with the odds against them.

Michael Lewis

#8. I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

Ryan Adams

#9. I could have been 23 next July
I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.

Hannah Senesh

#10. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.

Don Rickles

#11. And through it all was the pervasive sound of money. Money lost. Money found. Spent. Earned. Exchanged. Gambled. Wasted. Tainted lucre, wealth corrupted by those who found success on the suffering of others.

S.G. Night

#12. he said we're the Pandavas, didn't you? 'Coz I'm so honest and responsible and all. Like Yudhisthir.' 'Uh, Yudi gambled away his family's entire inheritance,' Eshwari reminds her. 'And their spouse.

Anuja Chauhan

#13. What are you willing to have left undone in your life? Don't let yourself be another example of a life gambled but not lived. Do not waste another day! If not now, when?

Steve Maraboli

#14. Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

Steve Martin

#15. My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.

Penn Jillette

#16. He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

Bob Dylan

#17. I never really gambled - certainly not playing poker. I'd casually bet on a football game or joined a pool.

Jason Gedrick

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

Rachel Caine

#19. Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.

Ron Atkinson

#20. She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.

Buchi Emecheta

#21. I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

Ruth Benedict

#22. I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

Jack Kevorkian

#23. have gambled and stalled.

Lee Child

#24. He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

Mario Puzo

#25. It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not all right that they also gambled with mine: They placed their bets with such self-rightous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. I gambled at the crap table all night and finally lost $8, but during that time the house gave me four drinks and two cigars, so it was still a lot cheaper than renting a room.

Jack Benny

#27. The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

Clare Balding

#28. A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker.
"We talked about this before."
"A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know."
"Suppose you can't see it?"
"That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

Gary D. Schmidt

#29. I'm afraid. I know L. I don't want you to get hurt. I won't. What if you do. I'll wait for you. Even if I'm dark? Even if you're very very dark.

Kami Garcia

#30. The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty

Jeffrey R. Holland

#31. When you're young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that's what you want to do, stand out.

Gabriella Wilde

#32. right" way to be Chicana/o also could be a hegemonic discourse and exclusionary of those who do not fit. They recognized the possibility of multiple hegemonic structures and the danger of policing claims to identity.

Dolores Delgado Bernal

#33. I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

Asia Argento

#34. When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.

Jennifer Crusie

#35. Willpower is misunderstood. The very word suggests that wanting something badly enough bequeaths that necessary strength to achieve or overcome something. If that were the case, I'd be Michael Fassbender's missus by now.

Annmarie O'Connor