Quotes About Game

one hider and all the other players are seekers. When a seeker finds the hider, he doesn't just win that round of the game, he hides with him. The next person to find the hiders hides with them, too, and so on until one seeker is left. That seeker is the loser and starts out the next round of the game as the hider. The tricky thing when you're the hider is finding a big enough hiding place in which to fit a whole lot of other people.

Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game.

I know you guys have some sort of weird thing going on, with that game you play and everything— It's called a friendship.

You ready to play? Dave asked, bouncing it. I don't know, I said. Are you going to cheat? It's street ball! He said checking it to me. Show me that love. So chessy, i thought. But as i felt it, solid against my hands, i did feel something. I wasn't sure it was love. Maybe what remained of it, though, whatever that might be. All right, I said. Let's play.

To me she said, It's this stupid gotcha thing, they've been doing it for weeks now. Leaping out at each other and us, scaring the hell out of everyone. It's a game of wits, Bert said to me. Half-wits, Kristy added.

Those jerks playing chevalier à votre service? Of course it's just a game. But the women get a kick

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.

107. To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

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.

Then there's no point in our being logical, is there?" said Jonathan... "What do you mean?" said Lewis and Mrs. Zimmerman at the same time. "I mean," he said patiently, "that we're no good at that sort of game. Our game is wild swoops, sudden inexplicable discoveries, cloudy thinking. Knights' jumps instead of files of rooks plowing across the board. So we'd better play our way if we expect to win.

Dalton regarded his chess opponent, from whom the outburst had come. "What on earth has got into you?" Lord Peter sat back, a triumphant smirk on his lips. "I moved!" "Well, congratulations. What did you move?" "Bishop to

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

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.

On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

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'm lucky - we're all lucky - to be playing a game for a living.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.

You have to enjoy the game. I enjoy everything about life.