"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." ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
"The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons." ― George Orwell, 1984
"You got up off the bathroom floor. That's a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all—aside from winning the lottery—all any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor." ― Sarah Spann, Wildflowers Come Back
"I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged." ― Roger Jones
"But a lottery isn't meaningless. Someone has to win." ― J.G. Ballard
"Sadly, like many times in life, including winning the lottery, we don't always get what we wish for." ― Adele Rose, Possession
"Most people who win the lottery are exactly as they were prior within a few years if they are not worse off. The fiscal management skills that lead one to give over daily money for scratch-offs will also cause the new money to vanish." ― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot
"It's much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that." ― Carla H Krueger, The Social Worker
"Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets." ― Louise L. Hay
"Even most of those whose wealth was not inherited or won often lose sleep over losing their wealth." ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"They say getting sober in AA is simple, but not easy. Just like winning the lottery, I guess." ― Dmitry Dyatlov
"Happiness isn't something you win in the lottery. Happiness is a state of being, a conscious choice, just like getting dressed in the morning. You must consciously choose to wear it." ― Sahara Brouwer
"The COVID-19 lottery is in full swing...are you feeling lucky?" ― Steven Magee
"They say the lottery is a tax on people who can't do the math. I would say arguing on the internet is a tax on people who don't value their time." ― Sean Kernan
"It's like playing the lottery. It doesn't matter how extremely low the chances are of winning. You gotta be in it to win it. Hitting on every girl in sight is like buying a whole lot of lottery tickets. You never know, one day one of them might actually pay off." ― Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
"Uzima wa milele si mchezo wa kubahatisha! Kila mtu atalipwa kulingana na matendo yake, mema au mabaya, na huo uzima wa milele atapewa yule atakayetenda mema maisha yake yote." ― Enock Maregesi
"Each time I bless a stranger- I feel like I have won the Lottery" ― Charmaine J Forde
"It was the same sky as on that day. It spread as infinitely as our desires, deep into the unknown." ― Tomi Farrell, The Lucky Winner
"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." ― Steven Magee
"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." ― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
"Saipov studied accounting in Uzbekistan. Then he got a U.S. green card and his life fell apart." ― The Wall Street Journal
"We generally outlive premature success and inherited riches." ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"23 Lottery Winners Who Lost Millions Andrew Lisa/Yahoo Finance:
Mickey Carroll was only 19 years old when he won a British jackpot that sent him into early adulthood with the equivalent of $11.8 million. The media dubbed him the "Lotto Lout" as the young winner tore through his newfound fortune with astonishing speed. Much of it went to drug-fueled partying, with the rest wasted on jewelry, cars and other materialistic excesses. As of 2016, he was earning a few hundred dollars a week working in a slaughterhouse." ― Andrew Lisa
"Investments are not a lottery; if it feels like the lottery, stay away from it." ― Naved Abdali
"Playing the lottery is foolish, until you win more than you have ever spent on lottery tickets; and wise, as soon as you win the jackpot." ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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