#gambling

Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers. Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints. ↗

— Toba Beta

#gambling #prophecy #faith

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#go #horses #how #i #market

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage #marriage

There is no gambling like politics. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#like #politics

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#contract #could #drinking #even #faster

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#american #association #become #begins #conducted

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#become #connecticut #exposed #fact #four

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill. ↗

— Joe Williams

#city #gambling #here #money #work

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#curiosity #debts #duty #family #father