Quotes About Games

I sold my soul a long time ago, dear fellow. The rest is all cosmetics and parlor games. Nothing that you say, you admirable, earnest apostle, will touch me in the slightest." "Are you so sure? Isn't every man a mystery to himself?

secret police had achieved "significant operational success" by inserting malware into cheap Russian IT games.

The Bourse, that elegant palace for playing with money, insurance, shares, was invaded by soldiers dressed in velvet and satin stolen from merchant wardrobes who set out tables to play their own games with dice.

The Fire-Eaters were a special elite-level team that played after the regular season ended. They had top-notch training and the off-season games added a lot to a player's performance when the regular season rolled around. Problem? You can't join the Fire-Eaters. They have to pick you.

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Quase todos os homens vivem inconscientemente no tédio. O tédio é o fundo da vida, foi o tédio que inventou os jogos, as distracções, os romances e o amor.

Agon includes games that have competition as their main feature, such as most sports and athletic events;

alea is the class that includes all games of chance, from dice to bingo;

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

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MUR LAFFERTY is an award-winning author and Hall of Fame podcaster. She's the author of the Nebula- and Hugo-nominated Best Novel finalist Six Wakes, along with the Shambling Guides series, and host of the popular Ditch Diggers and I Should Be Writing podcasts. She also co-edits the Hugo-nominated podcast magazine Escape Pod. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband, daughter, and two dogs, where she runs, plays computer and board games, and bakes bread.

Even pregnancies should be included in the games of probabilities, like tossing a coin.

Finished playing your sex games?" she asked point-blank. "I wasn't doing anything to your mind, Elena. Not that time." Oh, shit.

You never know what Legbara going to take it into he head to do. Him is a trickster. The Eshu-them too love to play games.

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

In the morn when they woke, It was Halloween Day. There was bobbing for apples and rides in the hay. There were costume parties, and games to be played. Cupcakes and candy and, of course, a parade!

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

I could probably beat you at pool." She tucked a strand of hair behind her golden ear. "No, you couldn't." "I beat you at darts." "We're getting off the subject." "You just hate being beaten." "Call it one of my imperfections.

There is no doubt that to the ancients of circa 100 A.S., games implied bloodshed; but gladiators' hand-to-hand combats to the death featured in Hollywood movies are overdone, since gladiators were splendid physical specimens who took a long time to be selected and trained and were not easily dispensable.

One day when Wittgenstein was passing a field where a football game was in progress the thought first struck him that in language we play games with words. A central idea of his philosophy, the notion of a 'language-game', apparently had its genesis in this incident.

Tehlikeli oyunlar oynanm??t?r. ?nsan?n içinde ifade edilmez bir eksiklik duygusu kal?r. Her ?ey ba?ka türlü olabilirdi sanki. Bütün bu oyunlar bu kadar da kötü oynanmayabilirdi.

Tehlikeli oyunlar oynamak istiyor insan, bir yandan da k?l?na zarar gelsin istemiyor. Küçük oyunlar istemiyorum albay?m.

?ki ya??nda geçirdi?i s?tman?n etkisiyle h?zl? ko?amad??? için saklambaç oyunlar?nda s?k s?k ebe olmaktan kurtulamad?. Bu ebeyle onu dünyaya getiren ebe aras?ndaki ili?kiyi bir türlü bulamad?.