Gamble Quotes

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

There is no such thing as 'social gambling.' Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble.

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

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

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

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

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.

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Where I'm from, life's a gamble, grab the dice/'Fore I leave, pray to God, then I grab my Nikes

For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

Never gamble without knowing a back way out.

It's not legal to gamble but it is legal to do fantasy leagues. To me it's an outlet where people can go on, play, and make some money.

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

I'm not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I'm not going to do it.

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.

Democrats, overpaid celebrities, the mainstream media that are so lazy, they are willing to endanger your lives, gamble with your life to try and score cheap political points!

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.

I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.

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.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off.

Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.

Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.

Alejandro Amenábar has a unique way of approaching movies and thinking about something which was new to me. It was different. I have a lot of respect for him so I just took a gamble.

What is life if not a gamble?

I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

Love renders all our plans and all our intentions a great big gamble.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble.