Cards Quotes - Page 16

• Perfect sandwich? Two slices of white bread, mustard, mayo and a platinum American Express card.

  Chris Pratt

  Two, White, Perfect

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 24, 2015.

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• Now airlines charge for everything... If the oxygen mask drops, you have to swipe your credit card to start the flow of the oxygen.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hilarious, Oxygen, Credit

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• See how the World its Veterans rewards!
  A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards;
  Fair to no purpose, artful to no end,
  Young without Lovers, old without a Friend;
  A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot;
  Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Passion, Age

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.223

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• Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.

  William James

  Life, Wall, Moving

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Patience, Shuffle

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

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• We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

  Samuel Gompers

  Party, Intelligent, Opportunity

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1906). “The American Federationist”

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• It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

  Daniel Dennett

  Hurt, Winning, Opportunity

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• The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Technology, Hands

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• I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

  Emily Procter

  Bad Day, Squirrels, People

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• Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Smell, Special

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• While holding positive thoughts and emotions is advantageous, positive thinking itself is not "Hallmark Card thinking." It's really an ongoing awareness that all truly is well with the world, with life, and with oneself. It's also a commitment not to mindlessly pass on fears but to bring positive energy, images, ideas, and feelings into the lives of others, to help them attune to the wellness at the heart of the world.

  David Spangler

  Heart, Positive Thinking, Commitment

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• Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly the Olympic Solidarity, members of the ICF, my own National Olympic Committee, friends and athletes from the Slalom Community. When I got the wild card, it was the cherry on the cake that I could not have imagined. It was much more than I expected for myself.

  Benjamin Boukpeti

  Athlete, Cake, Appreciate

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• ...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

  Paul Simon

  Numbers, World, Invasion

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• True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

  John Hay

  Money, Home, Gambling

  Distichs no. 15 (1890)

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• I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.

  Al Forman

  Birthday, Humorous, Fans

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• "Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Museums

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4140, Delphi Classics

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• I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.

  Colin McEnroe

  Dream, Wall, Exercise

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• Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

  Arnold Haultain

  Golf, Games, Racing

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• Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Memories, Games, Play

  Ariel Dorfman (2012). “Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile”, p.9, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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• When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• No matter what happens - never give up a hole....In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

  Sam Snead

  Giving Up, Drinking, Golf

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• I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Exercise, Golf

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

  Johnny Miller

  Funny, Get Well, Golf

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• Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

  James Altucher

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, School, Hockey

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