Gamble Quotes

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

When we gamble with our time, we choose our destiny.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game.

It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting.

The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose.

And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose.

And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble.

Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together.

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold.

You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert.

When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future. Act now without delay.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.