Top 100 Of Dice Quotes
#1. I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
Douglas William Jerrold
#2. My father could throw up a fistful of dice to make a decision, but my mother had an agony for every hour. I guess they balanced, as two people who love each other should.
Robert McCammon
#4. I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons.' Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.
Michael Ian Black
#5. The loser, when a game of dice is done,
remains behind reviewing every roll
sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.
Dante Alighieri
#6. The game goes round and round, to the rattle of dice and the shuffle of play money.
Ken Kesey
#7. without being able to arrive at its end, then, O Sanjaya, I had no hope of success. When I heard that Yudhishthira, beaten by Saubala at the game of dice and deprived of his kingdom as a consequence thereof, had still been attended upon by his brothers of
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#8. I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.
Wes Craven
#9. Like maybe we were one piece at some point and then somehow we were separated and cast into the world like a pair of dice.
Cynthia A. Rodriguez
#10. Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.
Chris Abani
#11. He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes.
Hermann Hesse
#14. The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
Terence
#15. People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#16. Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.
Matthew Underwood
#17. Life is a game of snakes and ladders, sir. You are steadily progressing accros the board, rolling sixes on the dice and thinking you are going to win - suddenly you land on a long snake and slide several rows down, far away from the destination again. -Mr. Ali-
Farahad Zama
#18. You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.
Cassandra Clare
#19. It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?
Kevin McKidd
#21. Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
Barry Ritholtz
#22. So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
Stephen Hawking
#23. Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way
rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.
Richard Paul Evans
#25. I was a gamble of Nature, a throw of the dice into an uncertain realm, leading perhaps to something new, perhaps to nothing; and to let this throw from the primordial depths take effect, to feel its will inside myself and adopt it completely as my own will: that alone was my vocation. That alone! I
Hermann Hesse
#26. One of the oldest mythological fables tells of Mercury playing at dice with Selene and winning from her the five days of the epact (thus totaling the 365 days of the year and harmonizing the lunar and solar calendars).
Richard Arnold Epstein
#27. Certain things have to happen before other things. Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board, and look all over the place for the dice.
Terry Pratchett
#28. You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.
Richard Baxter
#29. The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Sophocles
#30. And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame
Oscar Wilde
#31. I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.
Paula Hawkins
#32. There are movies that I've made where I thought I was going to be good, but when it was cut it together it wasn't. And there are a lot of movies that, for one reason or another, just don't become popular. So to me it's always been a little bit of a roll of the dice. That's the way it goes.
Christopher Walken
#33. at man's height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life, bare themselves, and show us by chance, for the space of a lightning bolt bony with dice, a few of our reasons for living and dying
Michel Leiris
#34. Ain't that the way of the world, now? Good luck turns bad. Bad luck turns good. Just a big rolling craps game played between this world and the next, and we the dice getting tossed around.
Libba Bray
#35. How did you survive?" I asked. My question caught him off guard, and his hand curled around the dice. He gave a cautious shrug. "The grace of God, I suppose.
Megan Shepherd
#36. Not without an army of ninjas behind me am I letting you into my house -Dice (Swoon)
Nina Malkin
#37. The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
Bob Feller
#38. Three things refuse to obey my will: the waters of the Kamo River, the fall of the backgammon dice, and the monks of the Enryakuji Temple.
Shirakawa
#39. It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison
#40. Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings.
John Dryden
#41. The universe was playing with loaded dice, which insured an excess of cowards in our ranks.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#42. People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing ...
Jean-Paul Sartre
#43. As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
Benjamin Graham
#44. You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
Barry Ritholtz
#45. God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
Federico Fellini
#46. Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.
Stephen Hawking
#47. Of a decent young citizen in a toga - perhaps too much dice, you know - coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even,
Joseph Conrad
#48. RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
Ambrose Bierce
#49. Inevera raised an eyebrow. "You suggest I mislead the council of Damaji about what I see in the sacred dice?" Abban smiled. "Damajah, please. Do not insult us both.
Peter V. Brett
#50. Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.
Stephen King
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they'll land.
Robert Jordan
#54. There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.
Bill Cosby
#55. Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.
E. O. Wilson
#56. Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way, and play the game of life with your heart?
Yoko Ono
#57. The God of Worms had evidently left tiny loopholes of chance in the worm's design, but He still wouldn't throw dice.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#58. What's nice about being a producer is you get to roll the dice more often, and you get to be involved with lots of different kinds of music.
Jerry Harrison
#59. Would go on a mad Parcheesi jag at Richie Tozier's house, making blockades, sending each other back with great abandon, deliberating exactly how to split the roll of the dice while rain
Stephen King
#60. The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. The man, his feet tip-tapping softly on the stairs, hated it. He avoided the Index like a gambling addict avoids the tic-tac-tac of the dice table; but, like an addict, he was always, always aware of it: of the pull of the Books, and the darkness, and the silence.
F.D. Lee
#62. 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
#63. Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along. Fate wins.
Terry Pratchett
#64. With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
Barbara Boxer
#65. Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.
Luke Rhinehart
#66. The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
Denis Diderot
#67. The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.
James Lee Burke
#68. So look carefully at the map of the microwave sky. It is the blueprint for all the structure in the universe. We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. If one were religious, one could say that God really does play dice.
Stephen Hawking
#69. Stephen Harper is trying to load the dice between now and the next election in his own favour. Never before in the history of Canada has a government tried to use its majority to unilaterally change Canada's election laws with no support from any political party.
Thomas Mulcair
#70. I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose
of some horse that looked good to me.
Al Capone
#71. Then approached the inauspicious day when Fate rolled the dice and Deception danced stealthily in the dead of the night.
Neetha Joseph
#72. And so, with a torn sleeve and a keyboard on which cigarette
ash can rest, writers ended up arsonists of recycled material with
a blanket over fast burning fires to send fragments of reality to the
sky for people to manage any way they wish. Or can." (intro "Throwing Dice on a Chessboard
Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis
#73. Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.
John Hadac
#74. Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?
Robert Galbraith
#75. Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
Ambrose
#76. We are not dissatisfied with our choices and with what life has
given us, but when we meet we both have a curious and not unpleasant
impression that a veil, a breath, a throw of the dice deflected us
onto two divergent paths, which were not ours.
Primo Levi
#77. I've been involved in lots of GAMES OF THE HEART, gorgeous. Rolled the dice time and again, took a lot of risks, took a lot of falls. Finally seems I'm winning. I'm not about to play it safe now.
Kristen Ashley
#78. Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#79. Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching
and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.
Laurie Notaro
#80. All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran - or Grayson - Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that was.
David Weber
#81. The battlefields where the dice of world history have been thrown can never be ordinary fields again and no god from a vanished civilization is so dead that he does not live on in his ruined temple.
Goran Schildt
#82. 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
#83. If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born
#84. It was once stated that God didn't play with dice, but then I discovered that most of the Gods did play with dice. However, they didn't see Destiny playing chess the entire time behind them. They never stood a chance, seeing that Destiny was on both sides of the board.
Lionel Suggs
#85. Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#86. It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.5
Jonathan Haidt
#87. The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide ...
A.J.P. Taylor
#88. For all but our most recent history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty. Every day was a roll of the dice.
Atul Gawande
#89. But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?
Eugene Levy
#91. I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
Antonin Artaud
#92. Still, if I was really relying on luck, I might as well roll the dice. I stood up, trying to remember the name of the old Roman goddess of chance - Fortuna? It didn't matter. I was quite sure she only spoke Latin, and I didn't. I
Jeff Lindsay
#93. Maybe that was the only real truth about the world, that there was no answer, that wisdom and experience were no better than a flat-out roll of the dice.
Janet Fitch
#94. I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking ... my stomach would just be in knots.
Nicholas Brendon
#95. Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Victor Kiam
#96. A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.
Bill McKibben
#97. Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.
Chuck Hagel
#98. We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Charles Bukowski
#99. The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.
W. Somerset Maugham
#100. Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
Josephine Baker
