Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. — Charles Lamb
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
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
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings
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
Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself. — W. C. Fields
I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces. — Jonathan Winters
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 is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. — Jack London
Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards. — Doyle Brunson
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
There's no one that ever beat me playing cards, the only one that ever beat me was myself. — Stu Ungar
Short Playing Cards Quotes
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. — Randy Pausch
Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage. — Jedediah Berry
I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers. — Chazz Palminteri
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. — Pat Riley
Time to toss the dice — Robert Jordan
The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play. — Chris Moneymaker
Arrange whatever pieces come your way. — Virginia Woolf
Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several — Richard Marcinko
I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice. — Zoe Kazan
I like to play snooker, golf as well. — John Terry
Playing Cards Image Quotes
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
Life Is Like Playing Cards Quotes
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play. — Eugene Fitch Ware
Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win. — Mike Conner
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it. — George Eliot
Playing The Cards You're Dealt Quotes
You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one. — Cheryl Strayed
Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold. — Nora Roberts
I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them. — Frank Langella
Never change your originality for the sake of others. Because no one can play your role better than you.
You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand. — Randy Pausch
What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do. — Malcolm Turnbull
You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them. — Diane Chamberlain
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand ~Randy Pausch
Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog..." "You play with the cards you're dealt... Whatever that means. — Charles M. Schulz
Deck Of Cards Quotes
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
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
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes difference.
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
I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
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
Playing Bridge Quotes
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. — Woody Allen
To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose. — Richard M. Nixon
Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it. — Bill Gates
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence
and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like
a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter
is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are
free. — Ted Loder
I'm not somebody that gets played a lot at parties and weddings. I mean, you know, you mention my name and you get an eye roll, until, of course, you're jumping off a bridge. — Tori Amos
One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts. — Alfred Sheinwold
I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window. — Alice Munro
Society always needs a level playing field. In order to do that, you have to have opportunity, and providing that opportunity begins with 'how do we bridge that gap,' that so-called Digital Divide? How can we get internet into every home possible? — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too. — Antoinette Perry
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. — Bernie Taupin
Card Tricks Quotes
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
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
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
Baseball Cards Quotes
I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture. — Bob Uecker
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. — Joe Garagiola
Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards. — Jay Baer
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods. — Thomas Boswell
President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards. — Conan O'Brien
Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card. — Charles M. Schulz
I rarely think the market is right. I believe non dividend stocks aren't much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it. — Mark Cuban
I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money. — Matthew Modine
You always dream about being on a baseball card. It's kind of funny when you finally see it. — Alex Rodriguez
People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do. — Oliver Stone
Tarot Cards Quotes
I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them. — Stephan Jenkins
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. — A. E. Waite
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer. — Lee Ryan
I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves. — Quentin S. Crisp
The tarot card 'The Tower' seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001. — Neil Peart
Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time." — Scott Adams
I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, Okay, I'm white trash. — Jennifer Tilly
I have precognitive dreams such as the year my brother's apartment caught fire and he lost everything. I'd dreamt it two months before. Alas, though I warned him, it still happened. Thankfully no one was harmed. I also read Tarot cards, mostly for fun. — Franny Armstrong
I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts. — Mark Roberts
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
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. — Phylicia Rashad
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
I've repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it's a very short-sighted approach. It seems to me that it doesn't fully meet the level of responsibility that lies on the shoulders of the U.S. I think that all this should be more dignified, calm and more balanced. — Vladimir Putin
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
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness. — Baltasar Gracian
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
Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. — Gene Perret
It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity. — Daniel Dennett
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. — Unknown
Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck. — Mark Sheppard
I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card. — Margaret Cho
Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about. — Samuel Johnson
I don't think of myself as particularly cursed or blessed. I think I got dealt a set of cards, and I'm playing with them, sometimes in heels, sometimes in combat boots. — Amanda Palmer
Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money. — Mario Lemieux
I don’t know about ‘common sense opinion’ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to keep us from playing cards for high stakes with people we meet on trains, and not to endorse metaphysical opinions. — Peter van Inwagen
What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy. — Edward Albee
My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically. — Andy Serkis
The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point? — Bobby Fischer
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards. — Charles Fort
A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet. — George Burns
In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them. — Alija Izetbegovic
I'm one of six children. I'd love to sound educated and say I dive into a good book when I'm there, but in truth, I spend time with the kids playing cards, ping-pong, and board games. — Kate Spade
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. — Oscar Wilde
I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.' — Jack Kerouac
Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. — Sayings
If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win. — Carl Hubbell
Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards — George Carlin
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