Quotes About Cards

Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.

I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.

I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull. And it kind of gives you insight.

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

Rage is something a child has when his house of cards collapses because a grown-up has shaken the table. But the house of cards didn't collapse because the table was shaken, but because it was a house of cards. A real house doesn't collapse even if the table is chopped into firewood; it doesn't need a foundation from somewhere outside.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Whenever I see my family, we always drink wine and play cards together.

One pair rarely wins an Omaha pot, even if that pair is aces. In Hold'em, on the other hand, a pair of aces is right around the average winning hand.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will." Jawaharlal Nehru

He made me write my research notes on three-by-five cards. On each card was a scene, a character note, or a detail from my research.

you may not even need to code in order to prototype architecture—you can prototype on a whiteboard, with Post-it notes or index cards.

After the play, he counts on playing cards, and he on a wild night in some girl's arms - why, in a cause like this, must you poor fools so sorely try the Muses' kindness

This is life … to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly and play them to the end. The game may not be worth the while. The stakes may not be worth the winning. But the playing of the game is the forgetting of self, and we should be game sports and play it bravely to the end.

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.

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

I wondered how my research into the mathematical theory of a game might change my life. 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.

But I realized that the odds as the game progressed actually depended on which cards were still left in the deck and that the edge would shift as play continued, sometimes favoring the casino and sometimes the player.

I decided to begin by finding the best strategy to use when I knew which cards had already been played.

In counting cards, it's mainly the fraction remaining that matters, not the number.

poker hand which includes a king, queen and jack, all three face cards that appear to be 'looking at you'.

Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.