#gamble

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #gamble




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


Tom Stoppard


#gamble #life #life is a #odds #take

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.


Donna Reed


#family #gamble #health #i #industry

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.


Ruth Benedict


#having #i #live #lives #myself

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.


Nancy Pelosi


#benefits #democrats #failed #fight #gamble

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.


Steve Allen


#gambler #heavy #how #i #just

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.


Paul Thomas Anderson


#audience #better #confuse #five #gamble

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.


James Chanos


#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

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.


Michael Hutchence


#courage #decided #decision #funk #gamble

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.


Daniel Inouye


#bring #citizens #contributions #dividends #face

Ersken gathered the dice, put them in the cup they had used for play, and tucked it inside one bound Rat's shirt. "Let that be a lesson to you not to gamble," he told the Rat soberly. "The trickster asks you pay for any luck you may have, one way or another." "Bless the boy, he's a priest with it," one of the Goddess warriors said with a grin. "After this, laddie, what's say I take you home and rub some of that off yez?" Ersken actually winked at her! "Forgive me, gracious warrior, but my woman would turn me into something unnatural if I took you up on your kind offer," he replied as if he truly regretted it. "She's a mage and I'd best stay devoted.


Tamora Pierce


#gamblers #graceful-letdown #guards #repriminding #forgiveness