Quotes about games

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Football Coaches do play football matches their attitudes toward the game in times of tendencies of losing can cause a change in the scores of the games they monitor and mentor!

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Don't be a patron of disbelief nobody fights and wins battles in the hand gloves of doubts.

Shannon L. Alder -

It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.

Shannon L. Alder -

It is not the monsters we should be afraid of it is the people that don't recognize the same monsters inside of themself.

Kenneth Eade - An Evil Trade: A Paladine Political Thriller

I thought it wasn’t winning or losing but how you played the game that matters.” “Just ask anyone who came in second place if that is true.

Shannon L. Alder -

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt but in our effort to escape it.

Shannon L. Alder -

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

Shannon L. Alder -

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.

Peter Davison -

I like poems that are little games.

Alan Thicke -

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

Daniel Suarez - Daemon

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

Shannon L. Alder -

Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.

Shannon L. Alder -

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

Judith McNaught - Paradise/Tender Triumph

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all." - Matthew Farrell

Bryan Fields - Life With a Fire-Breathing Girlfriend

The difference between the quest for the Holy Grail and someone saying ‘bring me a cup’ is the flavor text and the number of stops involved.

Shannon L. Alder -

The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.

Leigh Hershkovich - Shattered Illusions

In this game against fate, I am losing. Miserably.

Deyth Banger -

Times goes by your choice, if you make your days wonderful the days will go fast... and interesting and memorable.... If you do it in boring way they will go like watching a film which doesn't have something to make you get interested without games, crimes, horror, thriller, romance and every single other genre which you think without it the film is awful... but not only genre, but genres!

Shannon L. Alder -

Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.

Shannon L. Alder -

People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life.

Rick Yancey - The Infinite Sea

I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.

Rory Stewart -

I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball.

Shannon L. Alder -

Long standing hatred between a man and a woman is just unspoken attraction that has bruised egos.

Shannon L. Alder -

There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.

Shannon L. Alder -

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

When you're way too real, fake people be like: "You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).

Shannon L. Alder -

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

Munia Khan -

When you ‘lie’ to me, you don’t ‘lie down’ or lay.Even after the game you still want to play.

A. Ashley Straker - Connected Infection

Partnership means she is of equal rank to you, Raven', Obiakor continued...'Don't play games with her.

Bill Courtney - and Love

Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.

Shannon L. Alder -

When you love yourself you won't need to ask God if someone is being honest with you. You will know already because you wouldn't have asked him if you had the self confidence to know how people should treat you.

Melissa de la Cruz -

This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.

Shannon L. Alder -

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

Gina Wings - Secrets of a Perfect Hair Color: Adventures of an Urban Woman

If, one day, you find yourself involved in a dirty game, keep in mind that you end up screwed unless you screw your opponent over.

Darcy Coates - The Haunting of Blackwood House

C'mon. We can turn it into a fun game - What's Scarier, The Basement Or The Attic?

Shannon L. Alder -

As much as we don’t want to except it, there is a time limit to the best life God tries to offer you. When you disrespect it, push it away, play games with it, deny it, ignore it, are casually indecisive about it or hold it like a last resort, God gives it away to someone else that will cherish it more.

Shannon L. Alder -

You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires.

Shannon L. Alder -

You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours.

Ransom Riggs - Hollow City

Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.

Natalya Vorobyova - Better to be able to love than to be loveable

Let's play Russian roulette. If you win, I give you a Colombian necktie.

Avijeet Das -

Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life.

Gabe Newell -

The most important thing you can do is to get into an iteration cycle where you can measure the impact of your work, have a hypothesis about how making changes will affect those variables, and ship changes regularly. It doesn't even matter that much what the content is - it's the iteration of hypothesis, changes, and measurement that will make you better at a faster rate than anything else we have seen.

Darnell Lamont Walker -

Even the Us's are Them's.

Zenna Henderson -

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.

Amit Kalantri -

Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.

Eliezer Yudkowsky -

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility.

Eliezer Yudkowsky -

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility

Shannon L. Alder -

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

Shannon L. Alder -

Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.

Lucy Christopher - The Killing Woods

I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel.

Terry Pratchett - Small Gods

REMIND ME AGAIN, he said, HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE.

John Fowles - The Magus

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.

Daniel Suarez - Daemon

You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.

Miss Mae - My Dear Winifred

It's elementary, my dear Winifred.

Christina Harlin - Deck of Cards

Since I was a very young thing, others have told me that what I think, and the things I like, and the ideas I have, are bad. This has always been very puzzling to me. I understand in theory what the problem is, but in practice? I’m not compelled to change my ways.

Christina Harlin - Deck of Cards

I am a woman of very few layers, and most of them are selfish and mean. My parents tried to make me a good girl, but I just wasn’t having it.

Stephen King - The Gunslinger

Do grown men always have to play games? Does everything have to be an excuse for another kind of game? Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

Shannon L. Alder -

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or playing people because of ego reasons and/or control. 3. They don’t know the truth themselves. 4. They are undecided. 5. They refuse to let their guard down and be vulnerable because you or someone else have hurt them tremendously. 6. You are not being told all the information because of a break down in communication.

Shannon L. Alder -

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

Shannon L. Alder -

The reason a lot of women can't move on from a relationship or people they love is because they need to know why. Why did this happen? Why did you do this? Why don't you care? Why did you hurt me? Why do you believe this about me? Why did you send me mixed signals? Why are these other people in your life acting like you care? Men have it all wrong. Insecurity is not why a lot of women don't let go. Women have a difficult time letting go because men don't communicate why at the level that women r

Renee Ahdieh - The Wrath and the Dawn

Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight

Shannon L. Alder -

The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.

Shannon L. Alder -

You will never let go of the past by ignoring the most painful thing the person you loved has done to you. When you begin to minimize it, second guess yourself and others, ignore it or even pretend it didn't happen you cheat yourself out of healing. Naturally, your mind would rather believe the lies you are telling it, rather than accept the truth. The soul has a way of protecting itself from trauma, but if left in denial there is no growth or change. Healing requires going to that place you avo

Dr. Seuss - The Places You'll Go!

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.And the magical things you can do with that ballwill make you the winning-est winner of all.Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be,with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.Except when they don'tBecause, sometimes they won't.I'm afraid that some timesyou'll play lonely games too.Games you can't win'cause you'll play against you.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Learn the rules of the game and become a better player.

Shannon L. Alder -

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.

Shannon L. Alder -

Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.

Shannon L. Alder -

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved you as dearly as he professes to love Christ, then he would never let anyone that loved him suffer or lower their self worth to be with him. True love is compassion, respect and honorable acts that prove love.

Donna Lynn Hope -

Theirs was a tug-of-war and neither could let go. Both felt the burn and still wouldn't let go. Some might call it a game for neither could admit defeat.

Tanzy Sayadi - Write like no one is reading 2

It's true what they say, Love is a wicked game,A game so wickedly played,I am at your command in your wicked games.

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire

I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

Ernest Cline - Ready Player One

In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

Deyth Banger -

Why people like to be kicked and punched in the face. The game is famous as box??What's the inspiring thing?? Do you know that every punch in the head you lose a cell or cells so it's possible in the near future all boxer to be stupid. Why??Because of the punches!...But still I don't see where is the Adrenaline in this sport?? There are random punches or kickes without thinking just dicide it to do it for fun. But in games like chess there is strategy + logic!

Jolee Bindo -

Light side? Dark side? Oh no, it's all grey to me.

Deyth Banger -

The games made me the guy who I'm here now, the articles and the videos which I have watched and I continue to watch make the person today who I am. The life build me as such type of person!

Shannon L. Alder -

Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.

Evinda Lepins -

When we quit playing Hokey Pokey with God and keep our whole self in, His blessings pursue us!

Iain M. Banks -

The game’s the thing. That’s the conventional wisdom, isn’t it? The fun is what matters, not the victory. To glory in the defeat of another, to need that purchased pride, is to show you are incomplete and inadequate to start with.

Brandon Sanderson - Warbreaker

It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - or Lonesome No More!

Vera had not sensed my approach. She was peering into the instrument and turning knobs with child-like seriousness and ineptitude. It was obvious that she had never used a microscope before. I stole closer to her, and then I said, "Boo!"She jerked her head away from the eyepiece."Hello," I said."You scared me to death," she said."Sorry," I said, and I laughed.These ancient games go on and on. It's nice they do.

Patricia Briggs - Dragon Blood

You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.

Lionel Suggs -

Every step in life is merely part of a game. Every piece is necessary, but if you do not know how to control the game, then you become one of the pieces that are meant to be sacrificed.

Marcus Brigstocke -

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man

Ridcully sighed.'All right, you fellows,' he said. 'No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who's playing silly buggers?'The other senior wizards stared at him.'I, I, I don't think we can play it any more,' said the Bursar, who at the moment was only occasionally bouncing off the sides of sanity, 'I, I, I think we lost some of the pieces...

Brian Jacques -

Food to eat and games to play.Tell me why, tell me why.Serve it out and eat it up.Have a try, have a try.

Keary Taylor - Eden

You know Morse Code?” Avian asked as we walked up.“My grandpa thought it was a fun game when I was little,” West said as he rubbed his eyes again. ”That’s a scientist’s version of fun for you.

Assegid Habtewold - The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Life is full of games. Be a proactive player. Most importantly, know who is throwing at you, what and why. When you do, life becomes fun...

Gina Damico - Croak

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye," Ferbus said too loudly. "Then it's one-eyed fun.

Deyth Banger -

...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, create it - make the rules, make what they will do... That's how I do it. I make people to play my games and then often loooose!

Johan Huizinga - Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generally it is a simple circle, dyutamandalam, drawn on the ground. The circle as such, however, has a magic significance. It is drawn with great care, all sorts of precautions being taken against cheating. The players are not allowed to leave the ring until they have discharged their obligations. But, sometimes a special hall is provisionally erected for the game, and this hall is holy ground. The Mahabharata devotes a w

Johan Huizinga - Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generatly it is a simple circle, dyutamandalam, drawn on the ground. The circle as such, however, has a magic significance. It is drawn with great care, all sorts of precautions being taken against cheating. The players are not allowed to leave the ring until they have discharged their obligations. But, sometimes a special hall is provisionally erected for the game, and this hall is holy ground. The Mahabharata devotes a w

James P. Carse - Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

John Romero -

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

N'Zuri Za Austin -

A person who plays the game knowing he will win, doesn’t impress me as much as the person who plays the game even though he knows that he might lose.

Deyth Banger -

Before one day, which will mean the day before today, I just played chess with a friend the strategies were incrediable the moves which I made were wise and I win the two games... This happens in other games also, however today I and two my friends we played football it ended 7 for me and my friend and for the other fried 5-6 somewhere there... We just played football!

Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games

I said that i would try to win, but to win for her.

Brandon Sanderson - Warbreaker

Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules.He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing.

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