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  • The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

    Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult
  • The Democrats tell all the poor people and all of the middle class that they're only where they are 'cause the rich have cheated them, exploited them, or stolen all their money. The way they're gonna make it equal is to take from those people who have just won life's lottery, the premise being that the poor and the rich and the middle class are gonna get the money.

    Class   People   Way  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

    Men   Mind   Should  
  • All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. "When I get to Heaven", my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, "your grandfather won't even recognize me.

    Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press
  • Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.

    David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.147, Hachette UK
  • I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

    Believe   People   Joy  
    Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.9
  • 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 had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.

    Running   Winning   Long  
    "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.
  • Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.

    Animal   Winning   People  
  • War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

    Country   War   Soldier  
  • I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

  • 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 the world history Powerball lottery...

    Lucky   World   Born  
    "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home", 2003.
  • Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

  • I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

    Fun   Winning   Broken  
  • If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.

    Believe   Winning   Long  
    "What good luck to miss out on a £64m lottery win" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.
  • What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

  • I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

    Amy Bloom (2010). “Where The God Of Love Hangs Out”, p.55, Granta Books
  • We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as far as we know, we are the only living things in the universe, so it is our duty to protect it.

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

  • Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!

  • It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars and the celebrities. But that's such a tiny minority of the elites who are able to make those millions of dollars. The reality is that it's very hard for the rest to make a living as an artist. So, you really have to persevere and understand that achieving the sort of success where you're making the big money is like winning the lottery.

    Art   Stars   Reality  
    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

    World   Saws   Fairs  
    Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.76
  • My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

    Dad   Winning   Chance  
    "POPPY Z. BRITE: Just Not That Weird". Interview with Paula Guran, January, 1998.
  • I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!

    Funny   Humor   Scratches  
  • All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

    Charles Dickens (1866). “Works of Charles Dickens”, p.67
  • I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.

    Funny   Humor   Giving  
  • I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

    Latin   Winning   Men  
    Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
  • Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.

    R. Scott Bakker (2009). “Neuropath”, p.59, Macmillan
  • If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.

    Weekend   Order   People  
  • The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.

  • 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 winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

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