38 Quotes About Lottery

The corporate government disability system is like a lottery that really comes down to which judge you have been assigned to, regardless of how many medically diagnosed disabling health conditions you have.

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.

The valuable prediction test on how you will spend $100 million dollars if you happen to win a lottery is to look on how you spent your last month's salary! With 100% precision the two expenditures will have the same proportions.

Saipov studied accounting in Uzbekistan. Then he got a U.S. green card and his life fell apart.

She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath, and then you can hear a pin drop, and I'm feeling nauseous and so desperately hoping that it's not me, that it's not me, that it's not me.Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. And it's not me.It's Primrose Everdeen.

People play the lottery all the time unaware of how mind-bogglingly difficult it is to win. It seems like they take a different approach to probabilities. Their rationale must be, “Well, I can either win it or not win it, so my odds of winning are 50/50.

But a lottery isn't meaningless. Someone has to win.

Being born’s a hell of a lottery