Top 29 Quotes About Gambles
#1. I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
Imelda May
#2. I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.
Tim Blixseth
#3. It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
Jules Verne
#4. The aficionado prefers a crazy bomb to a mediocrity, because the musical as a form has such potential as entertainment that the merely adequate can fatigue the spirit while the disaster can amuse with its drastic misjudgments and desperation gambles.
Ethan Mordden
#5. To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.
Peter Cundill
#6. Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.
Ezra Taft Benson
#7. When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like dolphins in front of a ship.
Kristin Kimball
#8. Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this.
Sam Starbuck
#9. If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.
Don Shula
#10. It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback.
Nevil Shute
#11. A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
Benjamin Graham
#12. Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.
Daniel Woodrell
#14. A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.
Margaret Deland
#15. Life's a sequence of gambles. You're going to win some. You're going to lose some. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't play the game.
Nicole Williams
#17. Every person is a big mystery a thing build of secrets, gambles and lies. That's what's about to be a mankind.
Deyth Banger
#18. A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.
Daniel Kahneman
#19. This quote is not original to me but is
a hard sure way to peace and forgiveness: Stones in a pouch rub each other smooth.
Donna B. Mack
#20. A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#21. I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.
Christina Dodd
#22. I remember I once told him: 'Women's minds are so petty, so crooked!' 'Like the feet of Chinese women,' he replied. 'Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness? They are but pawns of the fate which gambles with them. What responsibility have they of their own?
Rabindranath Tagore
#23. All we have of freedom
All we use or know
This our fathers bought for us
Long and long ago
Rudyard Kipling
#24. I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm working on an album or a new project, I'm not all the time thinking about what the audience will think about it.
Rokia Traore
#25. Because truly big companies don't like taking gambles on small people ~unless it is a guaranteed return.
Nina Montgomery
#26. His life was forever a chess game played on a roulette wheel. He'd had to take precise, informed, ball-dropping gambles to get where he'd been.
Debra Anastasia
#27. I have done many comedy films. Success of films like 'Partner,' 'Singh is Kinng' gets you to a very wide audience reach. But for greater gains, you need to take greater gambles. If it works, you get respect and recognition.
Katrina Kaif
#28. I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.
Cameron Mackintosh
#29. Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don't even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.
Robert Anton Wilson
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