Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. — Charles Lamb
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary. — Finley Peter Dunne
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. — Steven Wright
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. — Voltaire
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery. — Jean Hugard
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line. — David Blaine
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. — Pat Riley
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table. — Dean Martin
Nowadays you never see players playing cards. We used to sit around playing cards together all the time. But I can’t fight that, I have to adapt and change. — Didier Deschamps
Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself. — W. C. Fields
Short Deck Of Cards Quotes
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. — Randy Pausch
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. — Jack London
Arrange whatever pieces come your way. — Virginia Woolf
There's no one that ever beat me playing cards, the only one that ever beat me was myself. — Stu Ungar
Try to be the king, but the ace is back. — Dr. Dre
Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage. — Jedediah Berry
When you finish the game, the king and pawn end up in the same box. — Italian Proverbs
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. — English Proverbs
The cards are stacked in your favor when you reinvest every penny in your business. — Vladimer Botsvadze
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve
Deck Of Cards Image Quotes
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch
Playing Cards Quotes
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. — Les Brown
She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it. — Louise Fletcher
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. I chose to investigate blackjack. As a result, chance offered me a new set of unexpected opportunities. — Edward O. Thorp
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. — Edward O. Thorp
There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you. — Merle Shain
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor. — Pat Riley
I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything. — Joyce Carol Oates
When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful. — Daniel Negreanu
Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy. — Leonid Brezhnev
Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life. — Alan Cohen
Cards On The Table Quotes
Let's be honest, the cards' on the table:
Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel.
Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus.
It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas. — Pusha T
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? — Jacques Lacan
One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards. — John Steinbeck
In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study — John P. Marquand
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. — Jose Saramago
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. — H. G. Wells
I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think thats a role that we should allow. — Pete Earley
I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters. — Jeremy Northam
Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets. — Stephen King
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table. — Warren G. Bennis
Card Tricks Quotes
Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator. — Daniel Handler
Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more. — Sayings
If I ever saw magic on television I would say: 'I want that. That's what I want from Santa Claus'. So the cupboard in my bedroom was full of boxes of magic tricks, cups and balls, cards and foam rabbits, all sorts of stuff. — Colin Morgan
Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with. — Proverbs
"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three. — W. Somerset Maugham
I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins. — Rich Sommer
Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks. — Sam Riley
Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card...I've already seen this trick. — Michael Ammar
All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers. — Kevin Mitnick
I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards. — Peter Brook
I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do. — Katy Perry
As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me. — David Blaine
Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation , followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance. — David Blaine
I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere. — David Blaine
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no? — H. R. Giger
Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." — Frank Sinatra
I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling. — Lady Gaga
Life is not a matter of holding good cards — Robert Louis Stevenson
The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. — Beryl Markham
He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards! — Bobby Heenan
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Those bellhops in Miami are tip-happy. I ordered a deck of playing cards and the bellboy made fifty-two trips to my room. — Henny Youngman
Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day's deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again. — Patricia Hampl
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards. — Barbara Ehrenreich
But it's also true that my memory is a card shark, reshuffling the deck to hide what I fear to know, unable to keep from fingering the ace at the bottom of the deck even when I'm doing nothing more than playing Fish in the daylight with children. — Lorene Cary
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me. — Truman Capote
Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards. — Toni Morrison
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. — Laura Swenson
One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider. — Damon Runyon
A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it. — Ely Culbertson
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about. — Ricky Jay
Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film is like building a house of cards on the deck of a speeding boat, or playing chess on train tracks. Every opportunity feels like that; it's the one artistic field that's unlike most of the others. — Jeremy Davies
I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards. — Valerie June
I don't think I could live without a deck of cards in my hands. — Omar Sharif
Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker. — Christopher Moore
In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come. — Amor Towles
You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz
But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs. — Greg Bear
'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen. — Joshua Foer
But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time. — David Copperfield
To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever. — David Blaine
The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them. — Anthony Holden
I'm not an expert in the deck at all. My interest lies somewhere near a sense that words are like tarot cards, and that a poem manipulates unpredictable depths with its words. . . . I like the tarot because it works like poetry and because you don't really have to 'believe in' anything. It's there to be used. The symbols are remarkably durable and beautiful; they float out to encompass all kinds of meanings. — Alice Notley
My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card trick. The routine is so brilliantly structured as to at first, intrigue, psychologically unsettle and then blow away your audience. An extra bonus is that it will hopefully create a welcome respite from bloody invisible deck routines. Worth the price of the book. — Steve Valentine
Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now — Drake
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate. — Frances Mayes
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or "Anna Karenina" when the obvious answer is "a well equipped boat and a crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the card games and read all the Russian novels I want. — Daniel Handler
One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends. — Daniel Handler
I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. — Katy Perry
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