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“Once you find your lane, you can't cruise; When you define the game, you can't lose.”

Author:Ka

“Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.”

Suffering Games Birth Caught Wheels Caught Up Birth And Death

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Children Play Games Crazy Happenings Consequence Our Children Climate Atmosphere Global Warming Predictable Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:William J. Clinton

“It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.”

Ifs Kind Two Care Games Differences Team Identity Football Huge Don't Care Football Game Personal Identity

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“I was happy to be a scrub. I was proud to be a scrub. When I got older and I started talking to girls, part of my game when I was talking to them was to tell them how poor I was. I actually enjoyed that.”

Girl Games Poor Talking Proud Enjoyed

Author:Joseph Bruce

“Every team has kind of a style or adjectives people use to describe the game that the team plays.”

People Kind Play Use Games Team Style Adjectives

Author:Rachel Martin

“I'm open to anything, dude. I'm open to anything. That's what I would ask the aliens. I'd be like, "Do you watch 'Game of Thrones?'"”

Asks Games Watches Aliens Thrones

Author:Charlize Theron

“I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.”

Thinking Men World Stories Games Space Moved Moved On Invaders Pacs Space Invaders

Author:Duncan Jones

“There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.”

I Can Stories Games Particular Creating Structure Puzzles Detectives Detective Stories

Author:Christopher Bollen

“Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.”

Facts Motivation Games Aspect Chess Reactions Tennis Competitors Bluffs

Author:Christopher Bollen

“We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.”

Years Two Kids Age Games Sports Parent Talking Boys Stupid Youth Adventure Daughter Eight Driving My Daughter Hockey Fourteen Trophies Idiotic Good Relationship Youth Sports Close Family

Author:Jeff Daniels

“All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.”

Way I Can Play Fall Games Can Do Events Acceptance Cards

Author:James A. Michener

“We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.”

Use Games Governing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

Ifs Men Way Wells Littles War Hands Games Teach Laughing Fire Careful Caring Careless Live Well Good Humor

Author:Winston Churchill

“A man's idee in a card game is war”

Men War Games Cards

Book:Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Necessary Evils ...

Source: Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Necessary Evils ...

“It is often the easiest move that completes the game.”

Moving Games Finishing

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Conversation is a game of circles.”

Games Conversation Circles

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it.”

Funny Games Brother Memoir Love Life Companionship

Author:Woody Allen

“The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.”

Games Higher Reflection Intellect Chess Higher Power Draught Frivolity

Book:The Best of Poe

Source: The Best of Poe

“Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.”

Courses Games Air Paris Cafes

Author:Oscar Wilde

“By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.”

Games Understood Nonsense Puzzles Amusement Entertainers Amusing Idlers

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.”

People Art Games Rich Understood Extraordinary Admire Nonsense Puzzles Bizarre Consolation Entertainers Amusing Refined Collectors Extravagant Scandalous Idlers

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.”

Two Games Limits Anxiety Bread Two Things

Author:Juvenal

“Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf.”

Games Childhood Golf Enthusiasm

Author:Chi Chi Rodriguez

“With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.”

People Thinking Kind Helping Games Existence Growing Rate Speed Certainty Faster Technological Catching Catching Up Rate Of Change

Author:Gail Sheehy

“Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.”

Heart Joy Next Games Stars Challenges Wonder Events Sweet Appetite Seventies Sixteen Childlike Amazement Childlike Wonder Undaunted

Author:Samuel Ullman

“Beast Mode doesnt make excuses. It doesnt complain. Whatever youre doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.”

Ifs Thinking Men Done Form Games Sleep Figures Return Wake Up Excuse Complaining Beast Pushing Going To Sleep Get It Done Bad Games

Author:Matt Kemp

“You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.”

Long Play Problem Body Able Lasts Moving Games Felt Long Time Good Things Finals No Problem Torque

Author:Nomar Garciaparra

“The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.”

Looks Guy Games Winning Realizing Differences Tough Baseball Bigger Twenties Luck Buddy Pitcher Nineteen

Author:Warren Spahn

“Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.”

Play Games Forgiveness Saint

Author:Kabir

“Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.”

Source: The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes

“Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.”

Bigs Games Ruins Hunts Mosquitoes

Book:Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

Source: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.”

May Has Beens Problem Games Loses Successful Approach Chess Reputation Mathematician Chess Game Inattention

Book:Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

Source: Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

“Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.”

Different Games Familiar

Author:Bobby Jones

“Courses that you've had success on, all of a sudden your game turns around because you feel comfortable on your tee shots, you feel comfortable going to the greens, you know, all the reads on the putts. It's a feeling that's hard to describe, but it's certainly one that you get filled up with confidence more than anything else.”

Knows Feels Hard Feelings Turns Courses Games Comfort Comfortable Shots Filled Tees Filled Up

Author:Tiger Woods

“Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.”

Doe Play Asks Games Decision Common Impossible Common Sense

Author:Wendell Phillips

“The only time a politico will try to avoid playing the blame game is when they or theirs are to blame.”

Trying Games Blame Only Time Blame Game

Author:Jon Stewart

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”

“The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.”

World Games Generations Youth Succeed Ordinary Universal Adulthood Championship Festivals Threshold Olympic Games Ordinary World

Author:Pierre de Coubertin

“When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.”

Want Happens Games Fun Pleasure Love You Okay Having Fun Disappoint Whatever Happens

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.”

Ifs Years Today Games Winning Six Beats Royal Yankees

Author:George Brett

“We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.”

Matter Games Our Lives Battle Shells

Author:John F. Kerry

“Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.”

Art Play Games Duty Art Is

Author:Max Jacob

“The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.”

Ifs Home Body Bigs Games Students Bears Texas Tickets Site Revenue Neutrality

Author:Darrell Royal

“I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”

People Want Needs Play Games New York Fame Awful Los Angeles Shallow

Author:Lady Gaga

“So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.”

Thinking Home Running Guy Games Winning Sides Gestures Pitcher Home Run

Book:The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results

Source: The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results

“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.”

May Games House Masters Beats Tools Genuine Agitation

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.”

Country Games Gone Communist Cricket

Author:Woodrow Wyatt

“It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever.”

Firsts Seems Remember Games Memories Forever Yesterday Ice Nhl Skating

Author:Sidney Crosby

“This country lacks the backbone and the spine and the will to demand fair trade and stand up for our products. If our producers can't compete, shame on us. Then we lose. But requiring our producers to compete when the game is rigged, saying our producers ought to compete, when foreign markets are closed to us, is fundamentally wrong.”

Ifs Country Games Loses Products Ought Demand Fairs Shame Trade Producers Spine Backbone Rigged Fair Trade

Author:Byron Dorgan

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