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  • Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. -- Charles Lamb
  • Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne
  • Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings
  • Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. -- Jack London
  • Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. -- Voltaire
  • I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. -- Maya Angelou
  • The one who bets the most wins. Cards just break ties. -- Sam Farha
  • One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. -- Oscar Wilde
  • I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. -- Jonathan Swift
  • We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. -- Randy Pausch
  • The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started. -- Jerry Coleman
  • Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. -- Christopher Parker
  • The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab. -- Robin Wright
  • Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first. -- Jerry Coleman
  • My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep. -- Danai Gurira
  • Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. -- Robert Orben
  • You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! -- Charles Lamb
  • A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. -- Steven Wright
  • With 'House of Cards,' you really get the heart and the meat of drama - and it's a thriller! -- Robin Wright
  • I watch 'House of Cards,' which was great. I don't watch a lot. I spend so much time doing it. -- Joanne Kelly
  • Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer. -- Robert Orben
  • 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
  • I couldn't imagine something asking as much of me as 'House Of Cards.' It's a great warm-up for coming back to the screen. -- Kevin Spacey
  • If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do. -- Suze Orman
  • Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche. -- Apolo Ohno
  • Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on. -- Kevin Spacey
  • The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks. -- Dizzy Dean
  • My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing. -- Ricky Gervais
  • Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly. -- Buzz Bissinger
  • Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. -- Les Brown
  • The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art. -- Martin Freeman
  • And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card. -- Ron Lewis
  • Whether Theresa May had stabbed has stabbed the former Mayor of London in the back and Michael Gove had stabbed him in the front. That's about it. It makes House of Cards look like Teletubbies. -- Nigel Evans
  • I watched 'House of Cards' in three days - and only in three days because I had other responsibilities, like my daughter. I couldn't just sit there and watch the entire season in just one sitting. -- Selenis Leyva
  • I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games. -- Dizzy Dean
  • I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games. -- Dizzy Dean
  • I got hired by the Cards when I was 21, and I could handle the job, but for the most part, I got hired because I was somebody's kid. When you start that way, you have a lot to prove. -- Joe Buck
  • I watch so much television. My DVR is full. I love putting my kids to bed, so I can sit on the couch with my wife and we can dissect The Affair, The Americans, House of Cards, or whatever it is. I'm so lucky. -- Scott Foley
  • As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card. -- Charlie Daniels
  • If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. -- John Bingham
  • A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. -- Stephen King
  • I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them. -- Adele
  • We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game. -- Randy Pausch
  • Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. -- Flip Wilson
  • My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards. -- Alison Moyet
  • I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can. -- Tichina Arnold
  • Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance. -- David Blaine
  • Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us. -- Howard Rheingold
  • People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal. -- Donald Trump
  • When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards. -- Tina Fey
  • I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard. -- Naomi Campbell
  • I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. -- Graydon Carter
  • Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors. -- Douglas Rushkoff
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  • Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. -- Phylicia Rashad
  • I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself. -- Kim Kardashian
  • Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos. -- Walter Kirn
  • The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards. -- Edward Snowden
  • I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do. -- Katy Perry
  • Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow. -- Sholom Aleichem
  • Trust ivrybody-but cut th' cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne
  • Patience and shuffle the cards. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Tarot is just stories on cards. -- Erin Morgenstern
  • Every plan is a house of cards. -- Holly Black
  • I had never really been around cards. -- Jeremy Piven
  • Trust everyone, but always cut the cards. -- Benny Binion
  • Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself. -- W. C. Fields
  • If you have the winning cards, why cheat? -- John McAfee
  • There are no friends at cards or world politics -- Finley Peter Dunne
  • The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards. -- Rich Hall
  • There are no friends at cards or world politics. -- Finley Peter Dunne
  • Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • The background looks like a lot of red cards. -- Arsene Wenger
  • Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. -- Thomas Friedman
  • Life is not a matter of holding good cards -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • A youth of frolic, an old age of cards. -- Alexander Pope
  • A world without war is not in the cards. -- Martin Van Creveld
  • We don't need a nation that has national identity cards. -- Malcolm Wallop
  • Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women. -- Kenneth Rexroth
  • Write more thank-you cards, but draw fewer swastikas on them. -- Michael Ian Black
  • My cards and flowers always got rejected on Valentines Day. -- Anurag Kashyap
  • If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck. -- John D. MacDonald
  • You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards. -- Andrew Tobias
  • Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make. -- Mark Cuban
  • I don't like credit cards. Let me triple underline that. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • Activate your fans, don't just collect them like baseball cards. -- Jay Baer
  • If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win. -- Carl Hubbell
  • The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil. -- Daniel Yergin
  • Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards -- George Carlin
  • The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard. -- Baltasar Gracian
  • I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts. -- Mark Roberts
  • Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards. -- Steve Ballmer
  • Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards. -- Nikolai Gogol
  • Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards. -- Sydney J. Harris
  • Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know. -- Patricia Marx
  • We are creatures built on a house of cards of language. -- Stefan Molyneux
  • One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards. -- Susan Cain
  • My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards. -- Marie Dressler
  • Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards. -- J. F. Lawton
  • I would never take any of my cards off the table. -- Donald Trump
  • When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down. -- Loudon Wainwright III
  • A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards. -- Texas Guinan
  • When the cards are dealt, I just want to destroy people. -- Stu Ungar
  • One honest relationship can be more productive than fistfuls of business cards. -- Susan Cain
  • I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching. -- John Waters
  • A batch of credit cards fattens a wallet before it thins it. -- Evan Esar
  • I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards. -- Henny Youngman
  • The title is still on the cards until it's off the cards -- Frank Lampard
  • He looks like something that fell out of a deck of cards! -- Bobby Heenan
  • I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves. -- Quentin S. Crisp
  • That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack. -- Joe Mantegna
  • With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards. -- Christian Friedrich Hebbel
  • One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards. -- George W. Bush
  • You can't control the cards you're dealt, just how you play the hand. -- Randy Pausch
  • Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June. -- Tom Waits
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