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Quotes About Games

In lacrosse, Cherokee men tested their strength, endurance, and ability to withstand pain. Before the games, they prepared their minds as well as their bodies.
~ Raymond Bial
Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.
~ Julian Barnes
Love...it complicates our games, old friend, it insinuates itself, disrupting the most carefully laid plans and unmanning the most disciplined heart.
~ Juliet Marillier
The battle is a collision of power, of gods themselves: man is only a pawn in these terrible games, or their scene, or their medium; but man's greatness consists precisely in his act of becoming such medium. By this act he becomes imbued with a soul and identical with the powers.
~ Karl Jaspers
I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?
~ Rupert Sanders
We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.
~ Fred Shero
When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.
~ Jane McGonigal
Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
~ Daniel Suarez, Daemon
I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
~ Bernhard Langer
Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.
~ Samuel Johnson
Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
~ Edward Abbey
In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
~ Raul Castro
We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up
~ Deval Patrick
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
~ Paul Wellstone
We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they're going to use to mean "status," then strive to achieve it.
~ Will Storr
antimacassars and pot holders. There were games with prizes
~ William Kent Krueger
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
~ David Duchovny
Moreover, as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from here and now. She looked at the games adults played and felt detached. It was easy to tell herself: "I'm not here.".
~ David Foenkinos
There is not a single true chess player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as gambit games.
~ David Ionovich Bronstein
Every man and woman should play the noblest games and be of another mind from what they are at present.
~ David Kushner
Anyone who thinks that God wins or loses games has to have an awfully weak mind.
~ Harold Ballard
I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.
~ Bill Bailey
"God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley. "Where have you been?"
~ Terry Pratchett