Bets Quotes

“Would you like to make a wager on that, Abby Abernathy?” he smiled, his eyes animated. I smiled.
“I’ll take that bet. I think he’ll get one in on you.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“Where's Priya?" I asked. "She's coming. Unsaddling the horses. She lost the bet." "Bet?" I said. "Who would take down the first soldier." "You had time for bets?" my mother snapped.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves

“A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities

“Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“I like bets... my favourite ones are those in which food plays big role.”
― Deyth Banger

“And now, at last, we are here. Now Eric fingers his glass and questions me hopefully, while the music of Muthaiga marches through our talk, and festive people clasp hands, revive old toasts -- and make bets on tomorrow's Leger.

One hundred pounds -- two hundred pounds...

"Has the filly a chance?"

"Against Wrack? Of course not."

"Don't be too sure... don't be too sure. Why, I remember..."

Well, that's what makes a horse-race.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

“But if it is crazy to turn down the 100 bets, the logic of Samuelson's argument is just reversed; you should not turn down one! Shlomo and I called this phenomenon "myopic loss aversion". The only way you can ever take 100 attractive bets is by first taking the first one, and it is only thinking about the bet in isolation that fools you into turning it down.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

“That, and his team lost—and the terms of this particular water polo war were that everyone on the losing team had to do 100 yards of butterfly, nonstop. There are very few things in this world I would pay good money to see, but watching Jack flounder at the hardest stroke after years of acting all cocky about doing flips into the water is decidedly one of them.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute