Best 54 quotes in «dice quotes» category

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

What's nice about being a producer is you get to roll the dice more often, and you get to be involved with lots of different kinds of music.

You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land.

It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are - who knows? Best not to speculate. Thunder rolled... It rolled a six.

My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs’ turn to roll the dice.

To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

Where I'm from, life's a gamble, grab the dice/'Fore I leave, pray to God, then I grab my Nikes

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Count Ambrosius was out of practice at chess. The usual game was dice, and he was not risking that against an infant soothsayer. Chess, being a matter of mathematics rather than magic, was less susceptible to the black arts.' --twelve-year-old Merlin, The Crystal Cave, p. 131 of 384

I know you not quite well Yet I foolishly surrender my mind to you. Slowly and carefully you have cast a spell Now my virgin heart only longs for you. There is no need to push, I am already falling. Once proudly tall, I’m no longer standing. Knowing well that I am doomed to misery, I will roll the dice and take delight in my suffering.

It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing everyone dies one moment, one way or other way.

I was the fire to your ice, the only snake eyes you ever rolled with that dice in your mind.

Plan strategically and strike it once to win. You can achieve maximum dues with minimum dice if only you are willing to clearly calculate and throw your efforts with optimism!

Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.

Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables ― with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card.

With determination and dice, I am God.

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

the poem is a dice throw on a patch of darkness that may or may not glow

... combinatorics, a sort of glorified dice-throwing.

Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em, there's times when they jes wont come.

Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

I can't narrow either one down to just one thing. I've rolled the dice and had both success and failure. I can tell you that right now we're on a roll with the talk show. Everything is good with the TV show.

I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets as well.

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you're rolling with.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

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

Nobody who was shooting dice wanted to get a dance.

Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not because we lack the talent, energy, or determination to succeed, but because of a factor that is beyond our control and that has loaded the dice decisively against us.

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

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.