Gamble Quotes - Page 6

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

Wisdom, Reality, Intellectual

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Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

Rumi

Love, Life, Sufi

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.245, Penguin UK

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I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.

Christina Dodd

Running, Lying, Men

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

Michael Ondaatje

Country, Men, Gambling

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For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.

Grace Napolitano

Years, Ideas, People

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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

Hope, Time, Money

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[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

Gilda Radner

Mom, Mother, Inspiration

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This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.

Charles Schumer

Guarantees That, Uncharted Waters, Immigration

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Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

War, Lying, Men

Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.103, Bottom of the Hill

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I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.

Tim Blixseth

Life, Determination, Investing

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I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed. I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married.

Yoko Ono

Nice, Gay, Love Is

"Yoko Ono takes gay marriage fight to clubs". www.today.com. July 9, 2004.

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Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Rene Dubos

Destiny, Environmental, Strikes

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

Alex Trebek

Sunset, Winning, Gambling

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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.

Michael Bruce

Kissing, Together, Band

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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

J. B. Priestley

Lonely, Science, Typewriters

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If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.

Don Shula

Life And Love, Self Confidence, One Thing

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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

Judging, Safety, Risk

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and more important: I remind myself to find the pleasure in this moment, a time in which the red sky passes to black, children create unanticipated rhymes, and the stars fall closer to earth.

Laura McPhee

Photography, Stars, Children

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Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

Garrison Keillor

Wine, Boys, Firsts

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For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

James Frey

Believe, Years, Punishment

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We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble.

Sidney Greenberg

Men, Thinking, Mercy Of God

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

Scott Caan

Mean, Vegas, Gambling

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

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Sacrifice, Gamer, Plunge

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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

Land, Gambling, Risk

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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.

Doug Davidson

Beach, Thinking, Vacation

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