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Quotes About Game

There are those who seize advantages because they think they can get away with it, and others who find their only bargaining chip to be a self-destructive veto. In a real sense, we all play the ultimatum game.
~ William Poundstone
All of Creation's a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.
~ William Shakespeare
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose
~ Winston S. Churchill
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Drake was finishing his game of bowls;
~ Winston S. Churchill
Poetry (whatever we may say) is, was, and will always be a game. And as very child knows, all games have rules. So why do grown-ups forget?
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.
~ Unknown
I have just spent the better part of a week sorting out the miasma of lunatic alibis known as your correspondence in an effort to adjust matters, that our game may be finished simply once and for all.
~ Woody Allen
We say the rarajipari is the game of life, Angel said. You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.
~ Christopher McDougall
We say the rarájipari is the game of life," Ángel said. "You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.
~ Christopher McDougall
I thought I could play at love...But I've found out I'm not made that way...I can't play this game if my heart's not in it.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Matelon gripped both her hands. "We are soldiers," he said. "We are not game pieces on a board. Don't let them play us. Give this thing a chance." Lyss gently pulled free. "You're wrong, Captain," she said. "We never had a chance. At the end of the day, that is all that we are—game pieces. If you don't know that by now, you soon will.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Damn," Crystal sputtered, looking up from the dictionary in disbelief. "Oenophlygia: the state of being dunk. It really is a word". Johnny gloated unabashedly. "Just wouldn't listen, would you? Just couldn't stand that I might be way ahead of the game. Word to the wise," he added with a superior smirk. "Don't mess with a man of my experience in that arena.
~ Cindy Gerard
Checkmate is from the Persian shah mat, which means 'the king is dead.
~ Unknown
this is life and all there is of life; to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly and play them to the end. the playing of the game is the foregetting of self and play it bravely to the end
~ Clarence Darrow
Any political affiliation is not a playground for personal interests. People can play with you up to the extent of endangering their lives. But the will to keep on playing is how the game is being played?
~ Unknown
Losing in any game is not gambling, but losing yourself is.
~ Unknown
A man accepts the thankless burden of responsibility. We women do not. To us, life is a game we play one day at a time.
~ Clive Cussler
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.
~ Clive James
Fear helps us survive. I've spent a larger portion of my life being afraid than I have being in control. But, here I am. Forget this escape idea, son. It won't help you or your family. Play the game. Find a tall tree somewhere. A tree that's survived all the coups and massacres of history. Go to that tree and dig a hole near its roots and bury your pride there.
~ Unknown
Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.
~ Heraclitus
Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child.
~ Heraclitus
Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
~ Heraclitus
Time is a child playing dice; the Kingly power is a child's.
~ Heraclitus