Quotes About Wagers

#1. Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#2. Wagers and pacts are made with angels - or with devils.

Paulo Coelho

#3. There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.

William Poundstone

#4. He knew what would happen. He has laid wagers with himself, I imagine, for days: how many hours, how many miles towards safety before he has to drop out.

Dorothy Dunnett

#5. I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi . . . when he suddenly offered to take wagers from his fellow scientists on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.

Richard Rhodes

#6. Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.

Isaac Asimov

#7. Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

Martin Luther

#8. DO YOU!!! YOU DESERVE IT, DONT DIE WITH IT UNDONE

Robert Earl

#9. To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

Alfred Capus

#10. This place smells like sulfur and crime,

K.B. Wagers

#11. There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear ... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity ... that comes from being what we are, right now.

Chogyam Trungpa

#12. Self-control is not needed because the body is evil - the truth is just the opposite. The body should be controlled with honor because it is worthy of honor.

Pope John Paul II

#13. Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.

Richard Arnold Epstein

#14. You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Greg Egan

#15. Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

George Santayana

#16. You kill a cockroach, Pete. You don't domesticate him.

Julie Garwood

#17. That was the problem with love, though, wasn't it. It couldn't be helped, couldn't be controlled. It just roared in and took whatever it wanted, destroyed whatever it wanted; the most dangerous addiction of all, because nobody survived it intact.
But an addiction that was impossible to let go.

Stacia Kane

#18. I've spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing.

Tom Rath

#19. We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Allan Bloom

#20. Grace is not a shortcut around our effort; it is the divine blessing on efforts that are undertaken in dependence and trust on God.

Andy Crouch

#21. To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

Ken Adam

#22. The key thing for me is to secure medium-term funding for the Roundhouse studios. It costs around £2m a year to run, but we want to grow it, and of course that will cost more.

Lloyd Dorfman

#23. They met at one of the Bouchercon mystery conferences. Love among the midlist. "It's raining cats and dogs!" Ted announced, which gives you an idea of the sort of thing they write.

Josh Lanyon

#24. In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

Nadine Gordimer