Lottery Character Quotes & Sayings

Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt. — Aruna Roy

But your perfectly good bed doesn't come with a blanket of stars. — Tracy March

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs. — Stephen Harper

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

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious. — Henry David Thoreau

I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA. — Javier Bardem

To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts. — Dorothy Norman

What did you give your kids, besides a lottery of genes? A stance--that mix of bluff and confidence, backbone and wussiness that passes for personality or character. One talks less about ethics after third grade. Don't steal candy or hit other children, if they hadn't learned the costs of violence on their own. — Edward Hoagland

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing. — Leo Tolstoy

There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready. — Aprille Legacy

Love is like the piano there are black and white and must play both for a beautiful melody. — Khaled Naili

Whither thou goest... — Neil Gaiman