Cards Quotes

• Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

  Charles Lamb

  Sports, War, Games

  Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]”, p.45

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• I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

  Jonathan Swift

  Gambling, Hands, Complaining

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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  Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

  Les Brown

  Giving Up, Powerful, Mean

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• Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Winning

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 03, 2011

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• One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.

  Dean Spade

  Order, People, Needs

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Day

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Patience and shuffle the cards.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Patience, Advice, Shuffle

  Don Quixote pt. 2, ch. 23 (1605)

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• Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

  Robert Orben

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.108, Doubleday

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• Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Optimistic

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• Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

  Steven Wright

  Night, Gambling, People

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• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

  Randy Pausch

  Life, Change, Positive

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2010). “The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living”, Hodder Paperbacks

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• You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!

  Charles Lamb

  Play, Age, Preparing

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• Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Trust, Cutting, Father Son

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.187, Penguin

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Play, Social

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Motivational, Yoga

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• Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.

  W. C. Fields

  Trust, Cutting, Trust No One

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• A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.

  Bob Phillips

  Cost Of Living, Add, Credit

  Bob Phillips (2015). “Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations”, p.61, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Love is the one wild card.

  Taylor Swift

  Love Is

  "Taylor Swift Talks". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 4, 2010.

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• The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and one of the last relics of bygone shameful times of merciless imperialism, conquest, exploitation is on the cards.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Light, Israel, Lasts

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• It felt, like, so far from - or far enough from the reality of things that we can enjoy it purely as entertainment. And now it feels a little bit too in alignment, honestly, but yeah - so we'll see how season five [House of Cards] goes over there.

  Mahershala Ali

  Reality, House Of Cards, Littles

  Source: www.npr.org

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