Quotes About Cards

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.

Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.

So far as I knew, Hallmark didn't make a "Sorry I Interrupted Your Oral Sex" card.

The first card was a beautifully rendered but terrifying representation of what Henry guessed was one of the Elders' forms. Next was half a Wolf cookie. Last was a card that had a simple drawing of a smiley face. "That is sooooo wrong," Merri Lee said, shuddering. "Yes, it is." Henry picked

And pros are just better at that choice, playing a mere 15% to 25% of the two-card starting combinations they are dealt in Texas Hold'em. Compare that to an amateur, who will stick with their starting cards over half the time.

You trust your mother, but you cut the cards.

The UFC are promoting a lot of cards and there are a lot of fights that people even don't know that will happen. But Wanderlei Silva vs. Dan Henderson would sell very well.

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

As long as we have enough fighters and fight cards to keep everybody fighting three times a year, that's where I want our roster to be.

We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.

You know what I really want?' Bruce said. 'Some business cards with Bruce Norris Kicked Your Arse printed on them. I can stick them in people's mouths when I knock them unconscious, just in case they don't remember me when they come round.' 'Bruce, what you need,' Kyle said, 'is some serious time with a psychiatrist.

We hold a universe in our hands when we pick up a deck of tarot cards.

Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindnesses and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected change of the game. One could hold the cards oneself or not: they would land the same regardless.

woman who takes cards in a man's game holds the status of a man and is entitled to no more respect.

Sometimes I think it is not the money, but the game. It isn't the winning so much as it is to play the cards right.

All this is only fooling, for if it is true that every man must work for his own salvation, then all the prophecies about the future of the world are only valuable and allowable as a recreation, or a joke, like playing bowls or cards.

By this same post, I am delegating a close friend of mine, Irving Wiesel, to visit your place of business and ferret out the truth. You can lay your cards on the table with Wiesel or not, as you see fit. When he finishes with you, you will have neither cards nor table.

Counting both times I cheated this week I won at solitaire twice.

Irlma doesn't care for the sight of people reading because it is not sociable and at the end of it all what has been accomplished? She thinks people are better off playing cards, or making things.

Love is a gamble, the stake is the human heart. The lover holds his or her cards close, lays them out one at a time and watches each move of the other player. To whom do you go first? This is the 'tell' of love. When a thing happens, be it good or bad, when you pick up the telephone or push through a crowd, who is it you most want to reach?

Thoughts flashed by, like cards glimpsed as the dealer shuffles the deck.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.

He was forty-three years old now and he was beginning to see that this was his life. These were the cards that he had been dealt.