Top 100 The Dice Quotes
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.
Sebastian Coe
#8. Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.
Mickey Rooney
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
Shia Labeouf
#14. Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?
Mark Knopfler
#15. God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
#16. 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
#18. The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.
Georgette Mosbacher
#19. The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
Sophocles
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.
Tim Wynne-Jones
#25. 'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
Luke Rhinehart
#26. 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
#27. 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
#29. To me, a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there is a problem the lawyer is the only person who has read the inside of the top of the box.
Jerry Seinfeld
#30. 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
#31. We may throw the dice,[*] but the LORD determines how they fall.
Anonymous
#32. I don't think I've ever had a minute off in Israel. I've been completely and utterly devoted to what Hanadiv does. I'm not saying I'm a good guy for that. It's just the way the dice have fallen.
Jacob Rothschild
#33. 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
#34. Roll the Dice and Watch Them Come Up Snake Eyes Eve
Jackson Spence
#35. I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
Kevin Costner
#37. When you roll the dice, let someone else act as a catalyst. God does not place with dice.
Lionel Suggs
#38. Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasants kings.
John Dryden
#39. I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.
Jim Parrack
#40. 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
#41. You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
Barry Ritholtz
#42. When you go into a film, you read it, and something clicks for you, and you like it, and you sign on for it; you go for it. You know that this is going to be a good film, and that is your best hope. Past that, it's a crap shoot - you roll the dice.
Richard Roundtree
#43. Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.
Stephen Hawking
#44. Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
Alexis Sanchez
#45. RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
Ambrose Bierce
#46. I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.
Wendy Williams
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#52. 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
#53. With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
Christian Marclay
#54. If the risk is high, the reward is high ... Why not roll the dice?
Tyron Woodley
#55. 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
#56. We all come out of the same abyss; but each of us, a trial throw of the dice from the depths, strives toward his own goal.
Hermann Hesse
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. He who is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six
Chris Bradford
#60. first wind tile next to the number that appears on the dice. For example,
WiWi Gaming
#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
#64. As she spoke, the dice started tumbling inside his head.
Robert Jordan
#65. 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
#66. When I approached Volume 1 of 'Lucid,' I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.
Michael McMillian
#67. 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
#68. I could have been 23 next July
I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.
Hannah Senesh
#69. You don't need to obsess over details if you're willing to roll the dice and accept whatever happens. But if you're striving for excellence - whether it's in playing the guitar or flying a jet - there's no such thing as over-preparation.
Chris Hadfield
#70. 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
#71. 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
#73. 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
#74. Yes. I was, I see now, an asshole who wanted to roll the dice.
Colin Harrison
#75. Then approached the inauspicious day when Fate rolled the dice and Deception danced stealthily in the dead of the night.
Neetha Joseph
#76. But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.
Graham Greene
#77. Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?
Robert Galbraith
#78. I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again.
Neetesh Dixit
#79. In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.
Bobby Rahal
#80. 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
#81. We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.
Anthony Kiedis
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. If it feels nice, just throw the dice.
Nina Obran
#87. It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing everyone dies one moment, one way or other way.
Deyth Banger
#89. 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
#90. The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide ...
A.J.P. Taylor
#91. 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
#92. The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.
Paulo Coelho
#93. 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
#94. Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
Ambrose Bierce
#95. Life is one big fat gamble, and the odds are never in your favor. So you either go for it anyway and toss the dice or you don't play. But not playing?" She jabbed him in the bare chest with her finger. "That's the coward's way out. And I hadn't pegged you for a coward. Figure your shit out.
Jill Shalvis
#96. I AM JESSE DITTLEY. DID YOU NEVER EAT YOUR GREENS?"
[ ... ] She said, "I lost the genetic roll of the dice."
"DAMN STRAIGHT.
Maggie Stiefvater
#97. It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.
George R R Martin
#98. Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.
Dustin Hoffman
#99. 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
#100. I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.
Henry Rollins
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