Cards Quotes - Page 12

• There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Games, Play, Skills

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 119), 1991.

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• One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish picture cards, snipped out by some fool who doesn't know what he is trying to do.

  Ugo Mochi

  Knowledge, Perception, Trying

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• It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.

  John R. Rice

  Girl, Christian, Drinking

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.100, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

  Stuart Dybek

  Library, Research, Wandering Around

  Stuart Dybek (1990). “The coast of Chicago”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• When a new CEO comes, make sure you send him a visiting card to say, 'Sir, I'm with you'.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Visiting, Ceo

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• More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling too much of the punch. You see in the airports the triumphant glitter in the eyes of people who are leaving it all behind, including the hundredth rerun of Miracle on 34th Street.

  M.C. Beaton

  Eye, Airports, Years

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• Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.

  Rex Murphy

  Self Esteem, Valentine, Magazines

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• The title is still on the cards until it's off the cards.

  Frank Lampard

  Titles, Stills

  "Bobby Gould, Paul Merson, Alan Brazil, and Jamie Redknapp star in our Daft Quotes Of The Year". www.mirror.co.uk. December 19, 2009.

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• It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game

  John Carmack

  Games, Use, Want

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• My wife lost all her credit cards, but I'm not going to report it. Whoever found them spends less than she does!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Credit, Debt

  "Chomsky: How America's Great University System Is Being Destroyed" by Noam Chomsky, www.alternet.org. February 28, 2014.

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• A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

  "Interview: Mark Cuban, Businessman". Interview with Scott McKenzie, slushpile.net. March 9, 2006.

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• I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.

  Kevin Spacey

  House Of Cards, Asking, Imagine

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• When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

  Chili Davis

  Yankees, Champion, World

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• To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50 percent children is ‘in the highest moral traditions of our country.'

  Robert Byrd

  Country, Peace, Children

  "The Byrd That Roared" by Matteen Mokalla, www.motherjones.com. March 2004.

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• I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

  A. A. Gill

  Believe, Watches, Afternoon

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• Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

  Paul Auster

  Games, Medicine, Friendly

  Paul Auster (1991). “The Music of Chance”, p.75, Penguin

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• We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

  Chris Matthews

  Islamic, Iraq, Literature

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• He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

  Kenny Rogers

  Eye, Son, Gambling

  Song: The Gambler

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• For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses.

  Morris Sullivan

  Believe, House Of Cards, Atheism

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• What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country ... he knows that ... the Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a victim. ... This guy clearly understands he's getting all the attention and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder -- but something lesser.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Stupid, Party

  "Anderson Cooper Trashes Think Progress By Comparing Their Site To Michelle Malkin's". crooksandliars.com. January 15, 2011.

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• When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy.

  Chris Rock

  People, Giving, Focus

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.

  George Clooney

  Dad, Thinking, Light

  "George Clooney Dishes on Brad Pitt and John Krasinski in the Emmy Press Room". Pop Sugar Interview, www.popsugar.com. August 29, 2010.

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• You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Light, Doe

  The Screwtape Letters ch. 12 (1941)

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• Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with and understanding people who are not necessarily like us. By nature all good novels are political because identifying with the other is political. At the heart of the 'art of the novel' lies the human capacity to see the world through others' eyes. Compassion is the greatest strength of the novelist.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Lying, Eye

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