Bad luck Quote by Ian Fleming Download Open image “At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.” — Ian Fleming ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad luck Bad mistake Casino royale Deadly sins Gambling Gambling and love Luck Mistake Play Sin Taken advantage
I knew it was wrong, but I thought gambling was a venial sin. That's why I didn't confess it to a priest until after… — Tim Donaghy Copy Share Image
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
In gambling, you usually start to go wrong when you deviate from your pregame strategy. — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything.… — Matilde Serao Copy Share
If a magician makes a mistake, it's sometimes forgiven by the audience. If a gambling cheat makes a mistake, they will almost certainly lose… — Steve Truglia Copy Share Image
Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a… — Ian Fleming Copy Share
It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“There was no sign of life round the domed emplacement of the Moonraker, and the concrete, already beginning to shimmer in the early morning sun, stretched emptily away towards Deal. It looked like a newly laid aerodome or rather, he thought, with its three disparate concrete 'things', the beehive dome,the flat-iron blast-wall, and the distant cube of the firing point,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share
“Somebody said that to become very rich you have to be helped by a combination of remarkable circumstances and an unbroken run of luck.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“You never talk to the pitcher when…” He shook his head. “You just never talk to the pitcher when--” “I just wanted to congratulate him on a good game--” “It’s not over ’til it’s over,” Chase said. “You jinxed me,” Jason said, crouching down in the corner, pressing his palms against his forehead, like he’d been struck with a migraine… — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was all something dirty that shouldn't be done to anybody, much less to the poor man who had the bad luck to marry me.' So she let herself get undressed openly in the lighted bedroom, safe… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“Everyone knows it is bad luck to step on a toad or on the shadow of a tree, to walk under a ladder,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because the core of my personal philosophy is that everything that happens to us benefits us, I was also spared the futility of cursing my bad luck, lamenting the occurrence, or feeling as if I was a victim. The reason I was able to benefit from my accident was because of the way I looked at the event. Not for… — Anonymous Copy Share
The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going -… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
“I was just beginning to wonder how long I would have to wait when finally a guard sauntered up and said, “Galloway, get your stuff, get your bed.” I ran to my cell to get my stuff and I grabbed the toothpaste. The toothpaste was in this clear tube and was clear like hair gel. It had a muted, watered-down… — Noah Galloway Copy Share
“Oh, I don’t buy lottery tickets... because if I won, and I was capable of that kind of odd luck, then I would also… — Chrissi Sepe Copy Share Image
“Before Tessa could answer, there was a knock at the door, and a familiar voice. "It's Jem. Tessa, are you there?" Charlotte sat bolt upright. "Oh! He mustn't see you in your dress!" Tessa stood dumbfounded. "Whyever not?" "It's a Shadowhunter custom—bad luck!" Charlotte rose to her feet. "Quickly! Hide behind the wardrobe!" "The wardrobe? But—" Tessa broke off with… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
