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Gambling Quotes (page 4)

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out. Ian Fleming
This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us. Thomas Merton
Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then... Charles Bukowski
Michael Crichton quote: "If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler..."
If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined. Michael Crichton
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. Jose Saramago
Jack London quote: "in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a..."
...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. Jack London
When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble. Charles Bukowski
. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. The dead fucking the dead. There was no gamble or humor in their game - it was corpse fucking corpse. Charles Bukowski
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. Rupert Murdoch
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
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. Chris Moneymaker
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. Benjamin Graham
Martin H. Fischer quote: "Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble,..."
Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. Martin H. Fischer
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man. Frederic William Farrar
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "There is no gambling like politics."
There is no gambling like politics. Benjamin Disraeli

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