Throw The Dice Quotes & Sayings

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded. — Ambrose Bierce

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. — Frank Herbert

People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing ... — Jean-Paul Sartre

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! — Alphonse De Lamartine

Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along. Fate wins. — Terry Pratchett

I played a game when I did the shopping. I thought about the children's games where the board is marked into little spaces and each player moves according to a throw of the dice; there were always dangers, like "lose one turn" and "go back four spaces" and "return to start," and little helps, like "advance three spaces" and "take an extra turn." The library was my start and the black rock was my goal. I had to move down one side of Main Street, cross, and then move up the other side until I reached the black rock, when I would win. — Shirley Jackson

All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran - or Grayson - Navy. If it wasn't, however, I have so far failed to find the plan that was. — David Weber

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get. — Terence

We all come out of the same abyss; but each of us, a trial throw of the dice from the depths, strives toward his own goal. — Hermann Hesse

The God of Worms had evidently left tiny loopholes of chance in the worm's design, but He still wouldn't throw dice. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

We are not dissatisfied with our choices and with what life has
given us, but when we meet we both have a curious and not unpleasant
impression that a veil, a breath, a throw of the dice deflected us
onto two divergent paths, which were not ours. — Primo Levi

Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw? — Geoffrey Chaucer

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck? — Marcus Tullius Cicero

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. — Christian Marclay

Life is not a symbol, is not one riddle and one failure to guess it, is not to inhabit one face alone or to be given up after one losing throw of the dice; but is to be, however inadequately, emptily, hopelessly into the city's iron heart, endured. And out again, upon the unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. — John Fowles

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. — Josephine Baker

He who is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six — Chris Bradford

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw. — Ambrose Bierce

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

I was a gamble of Nature, a throw of the dice into an uncertain realm, leading perhaps to something new, perhaps to nothing; and to let this throw from the primordial depths take effect, to feel its will inside myself and adopt it completely as my own will: that alone was my vocation. That alone! I — Hermann Hesse

If it feels nice, just throw the dice. — Nina Obran

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice. — Jim Morrison

I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again. — Neetesh Dixit

Let us consider an even simpler example of a random variable, the number obtained when you throw just one die. (Pedantic note : this is the singular of the word whose plural is dice. Two dice, one die. Like two mice, one mie.)(Well, two mice, one mouse. Like two hice, one house. Peculiar language, English.) — Christopher Dougherty

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide ... — A.J.P. Taylor

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame — Oscar Wilde

We may throw the dice,[*] but the LORD determines how they fall. — Anonymous

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not. — Paulo Coelho