Game Quotes

"I’ve got a nice racket going. I make tennis ball swatters. My favorite score is love all. That’s also how I live my life."

Jarod Kintz

"What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them."

John Lubbock

"Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer."

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

"Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!"

Karl Lagerfeld

"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?"

Charles Baudelaire

"Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon...a place for lonesome hearts."

T.F. Hodge

"Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!"

T.F. Hodge

"You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game."

Israelmore Ayivor

"For a game, you don’t need a teacher."

Dejan Stojanovic

"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh.” The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game."

Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

"Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted. Everyone has a chance at it. We’re equals after all. There are no pawns, no kings, and no queens. We’re all humans and we all have the same value."

Cristelle Comby, Blind Chess

"Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for."

Daniel Willey

"Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark."

Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

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

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

"Plans are fragile things, and life often dashes expectations to the ground."

Kriea/Darth Traya

"True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us."

Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

"Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules"

Anamika Mishra

"I heard you were a player , okay , lets play a game.We'll flirt, play fights, talk 24/7, say goodmorning and goodnight every day, give each other nicknames, hang out, talk on the phone for hours, take cute pictures together, make promises to each other and hold each other.And whoever falls in love first, loses."

Lyla Tyela Belikov

"His Presbyterian minster father had believed in a divine design, and Mozasu believed that life was like this game where the player could adjust the dials yet also expect the uncertainty of factors he couldn't control. He understood why his customers wanted to play something that looked fixed but which also left room for randomness and hope."

Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

"Playing is more than the act of judging the possibility of defeat or victory, playing is the probability of hope we will have victory."

Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

"We were playing a game against an unknown and unforgiving opponent. The stakes were terrible—play well or die—but we didn’t even know the ground rules."

Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes

"Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"People SHOULD be doubted. Many people misunderstand this concept. Doubting people is just a part of getting to know them. What many people call ‘trust’ is really just giving up on trying to understand others, and that very act is far worse than doubting. It is actually ‘apathy."

Shinobu Kaitani, Liar Game, Volume 4

"Be it a 'slide' in a children’s park, or one in the play-fields of life; the mantra is same. “You climb up and you slide down.”What is missing in the later years is the enthusiasm with which the kids run up the steps, knowing fully well that another down-slide is imminent. Life is a game; play it with gay abundance. Take a leaf out of the kid’s rule-book…"

Anurag Shourie

"It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front."

Michael Bassey Johnson

"After an hour the score was: Quancita—34 Radiz—51 Sally—froglegs Perla—9 a"

Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass

"Yes!" He says. "Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity of a creature."

M.D. Elster, Four Kings

"What seems to be a chaotic life is just a systematic, engineered Life driven for a purpose!!! The day you find peace in chaos, the game changes!"

Harrish Sairaman

"The Game gives you a Purpose. The Real Game is, to Find a Purpose."

Vineet Raj Kapoor

"Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary."

Rebecca McNutt, Smog City

"True friendship has no checks or balances. Once someone starts Keeping Score, the game is over."

Kate McGahan

"Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard."

Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

"I imagine the game wouldn’t be the same in the light,” Scarlett answered. “People think no one sees all the nasty things they do in the dark. The foul acts they commit, or the lies they tell as part of the game. Caraval takes place at night because you like to watch, and see what people do when they think there are no consequences."

Stephanie Garber, Caraval

"Stop blaming other people for your mistakes. Until you are ready to admit that you are infallible, you are vulnerable for failure to whip."

Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

"Hello PeopleAfter having trouble from suffer and hatredI'd like the world to know the charm of sadnessI will never be far away, but always among youA deadly game and the rules are very simpleYou need only to follow the simplicityDie or Suffer Make your choice"

Eyden I., Kiss Friendzone Goodbye

"War has often been called a game, with good reason. Both have combatants. Both have sides. Both carry the risk of losing."

Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising

"There is only One Man Playing your Game, You!"

Vineet Raj Kapoor

"The world I held so closely, she played me like a game,I released and left her laughing to stand on my own two feet."

Coco J. Ginger

"​Dharma or Ethics and Morals are the Fundamental Set of Rules created for those who want to Play the Game, by those who are Inside the Game."

Vineet Raj Kapoor

"Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ("When forgetting the rules of the game" )"

Erik Pevernagie

"Given these differences between the sexes, the sexual revolution was the biggest joke men ever played on women. By convincing them that the old rules didn’t apply and that two could play the predator game, men enticed women to do what men have always wanted women to do. But what a price was paid for the new “freedom.” And predictably, women were the ones who got stuck with the bill."

James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

"A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor."

J.Adam Snyder

"Sports, Politics and Technology. All the same game."

George Shirk, Ookpik

"Politics is like a branches on a tree, they all grow in different directions but their roots remain as one."

Saminu Kanti

"You think you're gonna find your soul. Ever since I've known you, you've been thinkin' that someday you're gonna crack and end up like your daddy. And you're been looking for proof that you won't. What you don't realize is this: the looking is the proof. Trust me when I tell you that Billy Dent never had a moment's doubt in his life about what he was and what he was doing. Your doubt is your soul"

Barry Lyga, Game

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