Lottery Quotes
170 quotes by 152 authors
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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating,…
— Scott Adams
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There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed…
— Rajneesh
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One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection,…
— Jacques Monod
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I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life…
— Tim Costello
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Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
— Peter Lynch
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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…
— Bryan Stevenson
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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…
— Richard Dawkins
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The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that…
— Daniel Gilbert
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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…
— Coby Bell
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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
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in…
— Hailee Steinfeld
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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…
— Kylie Minogue
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I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk…
— Lara Spencer
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That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in…
— John Dryden
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You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it…
— Tony Evans
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I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look…
— Tyra Banks
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After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a…
— Steven Levitt
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The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent…
— Bob Goodlatte
Who Wrote These Lottery Quotes
152 authors contributed a total of 170 Lottery Quotes, led by these top contributors: