Quotes About Game

Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest'unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioco, vivere è un gioco, morire è un gioco; profitti e perdite non sono che distinzioni passeggere, ma il gioco pretende tutte le nostre forze, e la sorte accetta, come posta, unicamente i nostri cuori.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the only one in which the player has to abandon himself to the body's ecstasy.

Because in the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns.

The symbol of a setting for a Hemingway story is a boxing ring; for Borges, a library. On the other hand I think Nabokov was a writer quite close to Borges. He had the same rich literary culture, moved with great ease in different languages and traditions, and had a playful approach to literature-literature as an intellectual game, through which, of course, the real truths could appear. But apparently the game was for Nabokov just an exercise devoid of moral substance.

Well,' said Mrs. Erdleigh, speaking kindly, as if to a child who has proposed a game inevitably associated with the breakage of china, 'I know trouble will come of it if we do.

How you deal with money reflects how you deal with power. Is it an affliction or a blessing? A game or a burden?

Yes, here I am again, trying my hand at the old game. They say that you can never cure a gambler or a politician; and, though I had very much to make me happy till that great blow came upon me, I believe that it is so. I am uneasy till I can see once more the Speaker's wig, and hear bitter things said of this "right honourable gentleman," and of that noble friend.

The tallest adults are the ones who had the most childhood and adolescent growth before puberty started; puberty typically tacks on a standard nine inches, and then the game's over. The children who are going to be the biggest adults are those who are tall by age one or two, and have a relatively late puberty, says Rosenfeld.

So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.

But consider!' I said earnestly. 'Count the cost! Your brain may, as you say, be roused and excited, but it is a pathological and morbid process which involves increased tissue-change and may at least leave a permanent weakness. You know, too, what a black reaction comes upon you. Surely the game is hardly worth the candle.

In a con game, you use his greed. You make the first move, and

Jason rammed his pants down to his ankles. I couldn't believe it. We were down 1-0 less than 10 seconds into the game. In the same time, my partner was down to his red long johns and his hockey socks.

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.

baseball is a game played by the dexterous, but only understood by the Poindexterous."9

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.

Hi. Hi. I shrug, as though to say Whatever. In my peripheral vision I can see Magnus exhale. He looks a teeny bit nervous. So. So. I can play this game too. Poppy. Poppy. I mean, Magnus. I scowl. He caught me out.

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, Here! Have them all!

head into the children's bedroom, where our babysitter, Teri, is presiding over a massive game of Twister. Minnie doesn't understand Twister, but she understands rolling around on the mat, getting in everyone's way, so that's what she's doing.

It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

I'm very happy that major players are always giving their opinions about my life, my game. I am very thankful for that.

Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.