Best Shuffling Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Walking on a path of uncertainties, Shuffling on the probabilities of uncertainties, Waging on the possibilities of uncertainties, Waiting for the occurrences of uncertainties, Solving the mysteries of wandering uncertainties, We move, lead and live.”

Mystery Wander Uncertain Wait Wandering Shuffle Shuffling Uncertainity Wager Occurrences Uncertainities Waging

Book:Just the Way I Feel

Source: Just the Way I Feel

“What, then, is the soul but a prisoner of your flesh? An undying yet constrained energy, bound and enslaved within a shuffling, steadily rotting suit of tissue and savage needs?”

Soul Energy Flesh Prisoner Shuffling Suit Enslaved Tissue Savage Needs Prisoner Of The Flesh Shadow Man Steadily Rotting Undying Energy

Book:This Book Is Full of Spiders

Source: This Book Is Full of Spiders

“There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.”

People World Moments Humanity Knowing Wonderful Buddhism Blind Dumb Unconscious Not Knowing Deaf Wonderful Life Shuffling Blind People

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.”

Feels Children Hard Remember Essentials Expectations Discovery Areas Innocence Aesthetic Stride Switching Shuffling

Author:Sara Genn

“Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.”

Done Whole Hands Would Be Moving Secret Forever Rounds Clock Ants Shuffling

Author:William Carlos Williams

“To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.”

Men Trying Values Social Equal Cards Packs Arrangements Shuffling

Book:Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

“It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.”

Persons Together Hours Wonderful Passing Passings Cards Dozen Packs Passing Away Dividing Shuffling

Book:Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others

Source: Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others

“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.”

“People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.”

People Long Laughter Chaos Smoking Bags Distraction Shopping Cigarette Coats Filling Smoking Cigarettes Shuffling Filling Up Feigning

Author:Rob Payne

“Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.”

Should Deathbed Shuffling

Author:Michael Ian Black

“The heavy trees, The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust, The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.”

Feelings Tree Blue Green Depth Heavy Branches Robust Inhuman Antiques Shuffling Nocturnal

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.”

Ifs Knows Audience Listening Losing Theatre Sitcom Shuffling

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“A lot of artists are just really stupid about money, and it's really hard to find somebody who kind of thinks of shuffling money around and doing business as an art.”

Thinking Kind Art Hard Artist Stupid Really Stupid Shuffling

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“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.”

Said Earth Process Fire Greater Four Wind Trump Rain Cards Suits Everlasting Pointing Shuffling

Book:The Greater Trumps

Source: The Greater Trumps

“Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.”

Men Feels Kind Facts Stories Form Birth Profound Ancient Tales Traditional Mortals Appeals Life And Death Irresistible Primal Resisting Shuffling

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.”

Facts Illusion Boxes Poetry Is Shuffling

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.”

Ifs Thinking Want Reason Care Action Form Too Much Happened Kings Raises Don't Care Dust Rhetoric Luther Shuffling Robert F Kennedy

Author:Marlon Brando

“One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.”

“We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble - and that's where the real bubble is - and the tuition bubble, we don't have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic.”

Real Stuff Chance Economy Students Republican Approach Democratic Chairs Bubbles Loan Deck Tuition Student Loan Shuffling

Author:Mark Cuban

“I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).”

People Long Body Able Term Policy Taxes Gains Rate Blow Likes Long Term Endeavor Desirable Digging Certificates Shuffling Capital Gains Digging Ditches

Author:Warren Buffett

“What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not just in terms of somebody saying, "Yes, it's true," but something will happen in a sermon or maybe shuffling up to the Eucharist, or in the old lady who's sitting beside me with a Bible - maybe something will happen which will show me that it's true. So I go back thinking, maybe this time I'll be lucky.”

Thinking Shows Happens Term Church Lucky Sitting Show Me Sermons Eucharist Old Lady Saying Yes Shuffling

Author:Frederick Buechner

“If you depend on a single industry, if you don't continuously upgrade it, if that industry is not producing real wealth, if it's simply shuffling paper from here to here in a very efficient manner sometimes, that's not enough and that's not where you begin to get the rest of your jobs.”

Ifs Real Sometimes Enough Jobs Wealth Depends Industry Paper Efficient Shuffling Real Wealth

Author:Juan Enriquez

“I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Play Jobs Games Lost Bunch Giants Ingredients Bottles Display Nails Polish Shuffling Nail Polish

Author:Amanda Palmer

“It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.”

“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”

World Light Ashes Shuffling

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.”

Source: Three-Book Edition: A Place of Greater Safety; Beyond Black; The Giant O’Brien

“I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.”

Machines Significant Noise Loud Load Footsteps Laundry Shuffling

Author:David Sedaris

“There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)”

People Want Firsts Littles Care Wanted Laughing Car Style Hair Instruments Moved Musical Nervous Makeup Laughed Zombie Clown Bicycle Malicious Musical Instruments Shuffling Morticians

Author:Kelly Link

“Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.”

States Past Order Waking Your Past Blink Shuffling Natal

Book:Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

“I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed. I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.”

Should Made Book Whole Felt Sound Feet Missing Hair Cold Shapes Bed Pages Shadow Breaths Legs Smell Thrown Chairs Wet Desks Homework Towels Shuffling Sated

Book:Linger

Source: Linger

“The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable”

Way Has Beens Seems Cases Strange Walking Inevitable Grass Probability Truck August Improbable Retrospect Shuffling Strange Places

Author:Robert James Waller

“I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).”

Hours Lines Late Lows Pressure Bitter Things I Love Carefree Shuffling

Book:Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

“There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.”

“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”

Littles Long Use Language Feet Broken Lovers Pavement Inarticulate Shuffling

Book:The Waves

Source: The Waves

“They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.”

Pain Hurt Animal Existence Stupid Wall Blind Cures Dull Terrified Hallways Shuffling

Author:Lauren Oliver

“Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.”

Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition

“Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.”

Trying Eye Mercy Seats Climbs Lied Moths Shuffling Bright Eyes

Book:The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013

Source: The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013

“So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less shuffling of feet and passing the sugar.”

Secret Feet Passing Passings Radical Sugar Nests Handshake Gunpowder Shuffling

Book:Fly By Night

Source: Fly By Night

“But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: "Me, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I won't be back to check on your for a while, so don't do anything foolish." She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn't look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don't know what to think. I look at where she had been sitting and see her coffee, a full cup, still steaming, and once again I learn that there are good people in the world.”

People Thinking Knows World Looks Stills I Can Walks Rooms Arms Paper Sitting Coffee Foolish Checks Cups Good People Desks Papers Stairs Your Room Shuffling

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.”

Should Firsts Made Important Play Action Moving Individual Steps Feet Type Basketball Approach Aspect Balls Moving Forward Coaching Drag Basketball Coaching Boxers Shuffling

Author:Tex Winter

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

Want Funny Turns Exercise Golf Cards Playing Golf Shuffling

Book:Time Flies

Source: Time Flies

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

Hands Ill Complaining Cards Gambling Shuffling

Author:Jonathan Swift

“If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.”

Ifs War America Winning Lines Fronts Boxing Volunteer Just War Shuffling

Author:Muhammad Ali

“As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.”

People Thinking Trying I Can Shows Seems Pain Simple Practice Impossible Magic Training Breaths Cards Being The Best Pushing Magician Deck Shuffling Deck Of Cards Pushing Through

Author:David Blaine

“In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams All your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you will Have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled Oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great About slaving 50 years away on something that you hate, about meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity Well if that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me.”

Ifs Years Wells Mean Dream Seems Hate Grows Deals Fantasy Growing Up Path Adults Yeah Bored Maturity Your Dreams Mediocrity Peers Teenage Packages Shuffling Ditching

Author:Frank Turner

“Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have a chance of arriving by random shuffling, of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.”

Trying Persons Earth Form Order Chance Imagine Depends Program Blind Notion Cells Just One Nonsense Soup Arriving Cubes Shuffling Blind Person

Author:Fred Hoyle

“Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.”

Earth Fighting Needed Solutions Areas Oil Saving Chairs Wilderness Tigers Seals Deck Pipeline Shuffling

Book:Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

Source: Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

“It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?”

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”

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