Cards Quotes - Page 18

• Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

  Frank Sinatra

  Eye, Player, Liberty

  Interview with Joe Hyams, reprints.longform.org. February 1963.

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• I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Order, Three

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• Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
  vacation with pay. Want more
  of everything ready-made. Be afraid
  to know your neighbors and to die.
  And you will have a window in your head.
  Not even your future will be a mystery
  any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
  and shut away in a little drawer.
  When they want you to buy something
  they will call you. When they want you
  to die for profit they will let you know.

  Wendell Berry

  Vacation, Mind, Want

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

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• You can't put a title card at the head of the movie and say, "Well, we really had a bad problem. You know, the actor got sick and it rained this day and we had a hurricane."

  George Lucas

  Sick, Titles, Actors

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

  Earl Wilson

  Men, Car, Credit

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• Marco Rubio, as an example, he's got no money, zero.I think that's fine, that's OK, maybe it's good politically to say you owe money because you overborrowed on your credit cards. He's got nothing. I mean, he's got nothing.

  Donald Trump

  Zero, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.

  Rachel Pollack

  Two, Bird, Paganism

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• Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

  Hill Harper

  Credit, Payment, Interest

  Hill Harper (2011). “The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place”, p.60, Penguin

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• A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Party, Thinking

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

  John C. Maxwell

  Player, Hands, Games

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset”, p.8, Thomas Nelson

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• There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

  Owen Feltham

  Honesty, Men, Safety

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• I made my first film McLibel independently but only by accident. I tried to get a commission from all the standard TV broadcasters but because they had been sued by McDonald's in the past none of them would commission me so I ended up making it by credit cards and rich boyfriends (I'm joking - about the boyfriends).

  Franny Armstrong

  Past, Mcdonalds, Credit

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

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• Nobody is excused from the excellence trend. Babies are not excused. Starting right after they get out of the womb, modern babies are exposed to instructional flashcards designed to make them the best babies they can possibly be, so they can get into today's competitive preschools. Your eighties baby sees so many flashcards that he never gets an unobstructed view of his parents' faces. As an adult, he'll carry around a little wallet card that says "7x9=63," because it will remind him of mother.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Mother, Baby

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• If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Taken, Writing

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• PIO card holders- they have lot of visa issues. We decided they will get lifelong visa.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Issues, Lifelong

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• We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began to emerge. And we began to think of it as a democracy. We're going to bring it into the West. All is going to be wonderful. That was never in the cards.

  Marvin Kalb

  Thinking, Russia, Vision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card.

  Jason Flemyng

  Oysters, Towns, Tubes

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.

  Pam Brown

  Mom, Mother, Appreciation

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• It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.

  Charles Williams

  Rain, Fire, Wind

  Charles Williams (2016). “The Greater Trumps”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

  Steve Forbes

  Money, Simple, Would Be

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• Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

  Mark Zupan

  Cards You're Dealt, Laughing, Too Short

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• The way things are going the faces on next year's bubble-gum cards will be lawyers.

  Reggie Jackson

  Years, Faces, Gum

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• I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

  Dave Franco

  Skills, World, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation.

  Al Gore

  Looks, Regulation, Epa

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• We heard the sad news today And had to send this card to say Our thoughts and prayers go out to you There's not lot a lot that we can do But if you need just anything Pick up the phone, give us a ring Even though we're far apart We're with you in spirit and in heart And hope that you will find, at length The love of family will give you strength.

  Margaret Jones

  Sympathy, Prayer, Heart

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