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Quotes About Game

If one didn't feel that politics are an elaborate game got up to keep a pack of men trained for that sport in condition, one might be dismal; one sometimes is dismal; sometimes I try to worry out what some of the phrases we're ruled by mean. I doubt whether most people even do that. Liberty, for instance.
~ Virginia Woolf
We don't know how long you have, but the longer you're in the game, the more you risk fatal overload.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Knight seemed to him to be constantly playing some game of his own invention, without telling his partners its rules.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I love being bossed by you, but every game has its rules.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The game of the gods. Infinite possibilities.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Throughout eternity our poor ghosts are exposed to nameless vicissitudes. There is no appeal, no advice, no support, no protection, nothing. Poor Kinbote's ghost, poor Shade's shade, may have blundered, may have taken the wrong turn somewhere—oh, from sheer absent-mindedness, or simply through ignorance of a trivial rule in the preposterous game of nature—if there be any rules.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
What is the real game? It is a game in which the heart is entertained, the game in which you are entertained. It is the game you will win. - Maharaji
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
The message of the Inner Game is simple: focus. Focus of attention in the present moment, the only one you can really live in, is at the heart of this book and at the heart of the art of doing anything well.
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
Game on, asshole
~ Lara Adrian
I can't remember the first game but I know you were assigned to different teams, the red team, the yellow team, the blue team, all different colors. There were 26 different colors. Also, if you had a sore arm, you wore a gray cap. If you had a bad leg, you wore white socks. This way, if you're hitting the ball and you didn't hustle, they would know it's because you had a bad leg.
~ lasorda tommy
I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
~ lasorda tommy ii
Bueno, a lo mejor ha llegado la hora de que cambien las reglas del juego.
~ Laura Gallego García
Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings, limited to one square in any direction, on defense for the whole fucking game.
~ Laura Lippman
Nancy began again, and she knew she was going to off-load to Infante the anger she had caught from the kid. Life was just a long game of emotional tag, one bad mood passing from person to person.
~ Laura Lippman
Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings, limited to one square in any direction, on defense for the whole fucking
~ Laura Lippman
Sugar, I am not playing a game. This is serious. I mean to woo you, so shut up and let me do it.
~ Lauren Dane
Yes! The Yanks had creamed the Red Sox last night.
~ Lauren Tarshis
So a sense of humor is not merely a matter of trying to tell jokes or make puns, trying to be funny in a deliberate fashion. It involves seeing the basic irony of the juxtaposition of extremes, so that one is not caught taking them seriously, so that one does not seriously play their game of hope and fear. This is why the experience of the spiritual path is so significant, why the practice of meditation is the most insignificant experience of all.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
Before examining the many powerful changes in the investment climate, let's remind ourselves that active investing is, at the margin, always a negative-sum game. Trading investments among investors would by itself be a zero-sum game, except that the large costs of management fees and expenses plus commissions and market impact must be deducted. These costs total in the billions every year. Net result: Active investing is a seriously negative-sum game. To
~ Charles D. Ellis
Thus two people who cannot afford to play cards for money, sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love.
~ Charles Dickens
in Storm V. The Wood-Sawyer VI. Triumph VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards
~ Charles Dickens
at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X.
~ Charles Dickens
VII. A Knock at the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII.
~ Charles Dickens