Loaded Dice Quotes

#1. God plays dice with the universe," is Ford's answer to Einstein's famous question. "But they're loaded dice. And the main objective of physics now is to find out by what rules were they loaded and how can we use them for our own ends.

James Gleick

#2. Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

John Ford

#3. The universe was playing with loaded dice, which insured an excess of cowards in our ranks.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

Petrus Borel

#5. In actual practice, someone is regarded as being "too liberal" if his conscience permits something that my conscience does not permit.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

#6. Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed,
Everybody knows that the war is over,
Everybody knows the good guys lost.

Leonard Cohen

#7. You can't be saved, oblivion is all you crave.

Robert Palmer

#8. There's rivalry between the Harry Potter fans and the Twilight fans. And Twilight fans think they're much cooler than the Harry Potter fans. And I'm like, I dunno why, they'd all get their butts kicked by the Doctor Who fans.

Matt Smith

#9. The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.

James Hansen

#10. I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

David Mamet

#11. Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

Leonard Cohen

#12. I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out ... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

Hector Elizondo

#13. The lower you are on the pole, the more events seem to be governed by chance. Climb up a few steps and you realize that there's an order to the whole thing, the dice are loaded and the cards well marked.

Daniel Polansky

#14. So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

Theodore Dalrymple

#15. The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. As so many commitments
demand your time
Or your shut-eye important be,
Your attraction to me must
in some way lack,
Such a pity to spend time
on thee.

Charlotte M. Liebel

#17. RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Gustave Flaubert

#19. Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.

Camille Paglia

#20. Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Mark Knopfler

#21. It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.

Melody Beattie

#22. We must ensure that Grenadine doesn't have any cards hidden up her sleeve." He slapped Jeb on the back. "See what I did there? 'Cards up her sleeve'?" He chuckled.

A.G. Howard

#23. Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.

Zona Gale

#24. I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

John F. Kerry

#25. I had a boyfriend for a long time, and I've never really been single as an adult.

Erin Heatherton

#26. The dice of God are always loaded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson