Lottery Quotes - Page 4

• I'm not a wealthy person and I don't think that I would be able to prioritize that much money to go for a ride to a place that I have already lived. But if the price comes down or I win a lottery or something, why not?

  Chris Hadfield

  Thinking, Winning, Able

  "Floating Round My Tin Can". Interview with Jacob Aron, www.slate.com. November 16, 2013.

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• The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

  Laurence Sterne

  Tickets, Chance, Virtue

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A.M. In Eight Volumes ..”, p.113

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• I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

  George Sand

  Upset, Mind, Succeed

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers' high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. This didn't stop the Irish population in general from skulking around rainbows, hoping to win the supernatural lottery.

  Eoin Colfer

  Crazy, Taken, Winning

  Eoin Colfer (2001). “Artemis Fowl”

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• Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath,
  says God from the bowels of the subway. but we want magic, to win
  the lottery we never bought a ticket for.

  Mary Karr

  Winning, Magic, Want

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Gambling, Gold

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• I won the family lottery. I come from the best family in the world.

  Jake Epstein

  World, Best Family

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• A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Winning, Men, Common Sense

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• European lotteries are the tax on fools.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Gambling, Fool, Taxes

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• Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.

  Amber Rose

  Dream, Winning, Scary

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• Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Winning, Actors, Faces

  "Vincent Kartheiser Talks MAD MEN, Why People Prefer Don Over Pete, Gender Roles in the 60s, Jon Hamm’s Directing Skills, and More". Interview, collider.com. April 27, 2013.

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• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  Marat Safin

  Kind, Anything Can Happen, Happens

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• It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

  Rafael Nadal

  Tennis, Transition, Problem

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• A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

  David Mitchell

  Winning, Voice, Giving

  "Once upon a life: David Mitchell" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Doctors, Sick, Healthy

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• In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

  Jane D. Hull

  Running, Years, Twenties

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• When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mean, People, Realizing

  "Khaled Hosseini: The Threads That Connect Us" by Khaled Hosseini, www.shelf-awareness.com.

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• If I had all the money in the world, I'd be like, "Great, let's just keep doing it!" I, unfortunately, have not won the lottery or found the magic genie lamp.

  Zachary Levi

  Magic, Lamps, World

  "Zachary Levi Talks HEROES REBORN, the TANGLED TV Series, The Nerd Machine, Comic-Con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• [Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Winning, One Direction

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• You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.

  Kylie Minogue

  Love Is, Thinking, People

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• I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Watches

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• I've been really lucky to get on shows that stay on. It's one thing to book a show, and it's like winning the lottery again to have it picked up, and then again to have the show stay on the air.

  Coby Bell

  Book, Winning, Air

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• Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

  Vicki Baum

  Night, Men, Worry

  Vicki Baum (1931). “And Life Goes on”

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• The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Winning, Long

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Reality, Race, Punishment

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