Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing. — Fay Faron Copy Share Image
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
“I wonder if God runs some kind of lottery up in heaven and that's how he decides who's going where and with… — Julie Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm hoping to get a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Future tonight. Maybe he can give me the winning lottery ticket… — Baker Buddy Copy Share Image
There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
My wife said to me: 'If you won the lottery, would you still love me?' I said: 'Of course I would. I'd… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
“He remembered the story of an old man who went into a church one day to reprimand God for never having helped… — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
“As far as he was concerned, a kid who’d won life’s lottery because of his genes and not his own hard work… — Rieko Yoshihara Copy Share Image
An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies,… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
You can see why there are more people wanting to come from economically-distressed areas, and they can't all come to America. So… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable… — Dawn Johnsen Copy Share Image
Hip flexibility is genetic to a degree, and the most gifted hitters have won both the genetic and mechanical lottery. — Gabe Kapler Copy Share Image
“Your oddity is your hottest commodity but you scratch yourself like it's the lottery to reject yourself mentally, spiritually & bodily.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I'm not saying everything was better in the old days; it wasn't. We had no Lottery funding to give us money to… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
If I got picked in the first round, second round, lottery, never picked - it wouldn't have mattered to me. — Larry Nance, Jr Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently. — Jane D. Hull Copy Share Image
A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I feel like I got a winning lottery ticket in my life and the rug could be pulled out from under me… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks. — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
You can win the lottery but you need to buy the ticket first. And in life, you can get lucky but you… — Natalia Reyes Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
My girlfriend's best friend's ex boyfriend's mother's insurance agent is the winner of my own lottery drawing. — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
Tho marriage be a lottery in which there are a wondrous many blanks, yet there is one inestimable lot in which the… — John Vanbrugh Copy Share Image
I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight. — Mario Lemieux Copy Share Image
When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
