Cards Quotes - Page 17

• Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.

  Mickey Mantle

  Names, Chance, Throwing Up

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• You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

  Anna Brackett

  Fate, Acceptance, Games

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• Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

  Josh Billings

  Doubt, Doe, Said

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• This card is sent to cheer you As you're confined to bed I'm sure it'll feel all worthwhile In the happier days ahead.

  John Walter Bratton

  Cheer, Get Well, Bed

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• i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

  Ani DiFranco

  Women, Religion, Hallmark

  Song: Superhero, Album: Dilate, 1996

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• People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  People, Credit, Tricks

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• I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that's about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It's a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I'll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there's like people twice my age that look twice as good!

  Rachael Ray

  Couple, Home, Thinking

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• I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.

  Ruth Graham

  Grief, Flower, Losing A Loved One

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• The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others—or allow ourselves to be taken—with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Travel, Work, Nice

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• If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle of sarsaparilla tonic. Instead, we'll take our genotype ID bracely to the local genopharmacologist to order some bespoke pharmaceuticals. Or we may rise at four A.M. to meditate on the part of our nature that is painful and feel better for it. Along with social insurance, we'll carry geno-cards that list our predispositions: photosensitivity, osteoporosis, and poor response to codeine.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Feel Better, Order

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• Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.

  Christopher Moore

  Real, Two, Giving

  Christopher Moore (2010). “Fool”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• And I flirted with the devil and he dealt me a card. He told me that you will never win. So I sold my soul to the devil. I never thought it could be this bad. And I got the devil takin' me away

  Hank Williams III

  Winning, Soul, Devil

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• I learned that the people who have the cards are usually the ones who talk the least and the softest; those who are bluffing tend to talk loudly and give themselves away.

  Richard M. Nixon

  People, Giving

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• You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out
  these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of
  his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be
  shot on the spot.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Bread, Action, Terrorism

  "Meeting of the Presidium of the Petrograd Soviet With Delegates From the Food Supply Organisations (January 27, 1918)". Krasnaya Letopis No. 1, 1924. Collected Works, Volume 26, p. 501, www.marx2mao.com.

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• For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry.

  Dave Barry

  Dad, Father, Appreciate

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• I tend to avoid the shows that focus on politics, just to get a break from it all, i tried watching the first couple episodes of 'House of Cards,' but I thought it was way over the top. Members of Congress aren't anything like Frank Underwood. Most of us are far less interesting.

  Paul Ryan

  Couple, House Of Cards, Interesting

  "Is Washington a 'House of Cards'?" by S.E. Cupp, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2014.

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• All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.

  Bobby Knight

  Running, Morning, Kids

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• Life is not a matter of holding good cards

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Matter, Life Is, Playing Cards

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• I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Stories, Credit, Able

  "15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Synne D. Chapman, www.thecrimson.com. May 14, 2008.

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• When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.

  Rex Smith

  School, Knowing, Guy

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five people being the best they've ever been, and 10 people not being the best they could be. It's like if everybody is either doing their greatest work, or the whole house of cards falls apart.

  Steven Spielberg

  Fall, House Of Cards, People

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• Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real, Hard Work, Broken

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2012.

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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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• 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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• Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

  Eddie Izzard

  Honest, Transgender, Beginning Of Life

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