#lottery

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#doubtful #far #happiness #i #i think

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#almost #along #came #college #go

Forget the lottery. Bet on yourself instead. ↗

— Brian Koslow

#forget #instead #lottery #yourself

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete. ↗

— Linford Christie

#athletes #earning #funding #getting #had

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 resident based on pure luck. ↗

— Bob Goodlatte

#chosen #each #given #lottery #luck

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

#depends #difficult #grass #how #lottery

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers. ↗

— W V O Quine

#philosophy #quine #intelligence

Money doesn't change you, it changes people around you. ↗

— Bow Wow

#change

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#continue #created #demand #jobs #lottery

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#being #death #death penalty #fatal #lottery