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games words-of-wisdom delight
Charles Dickens To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
games planning designer
Charles Stross I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.
games play self
Alan Watts The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
games fire giving
Alan Watts Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game - the human game and what underlies it - are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don't exist in it at all.
games boards vendetta
Alan Moore They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.
games goal able
Alan Green You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
games gambling casinos
Al Alvarez The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
games gambling cards
Al Alvarez Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.
player games profound
Charles Caleb Colton As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.
play skills needs
Charles Spurgeon It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.
play done form
Alan Watts To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
play forget notes
Alan Watts You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
play what-matters bargaining
Alan Rosenberg Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.
player sight league
Alan Pardew It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
play who-i-am people
Alan Rickman Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
play careers america
Alan Rickman I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.
play interesting people
Alan Rickman I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
people everyday passing-away
Charles Dickens You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.
people literature may
Charles Dickens May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
people words-of-wisdom facts
Charles Dickens Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
people coats holiness
Charles Dickens Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
people may medical
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
Charles Dickens A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
Charles Dickens My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Charles Dickens Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Charles Dickens Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.