Quotes on Cards

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.

Author: Les Brown

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Author: Camilo Cela

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Author: Ely Culbertson

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.

Author: Dizzy Dean

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

Author: King Farouk

Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.

Author: Elton Gallegly

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

Author: Carl Hubbell

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

Author: Alija Izetbegovic

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

Author: Stephan Jenkins

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Author: Emmett Kelly

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Author: Jacques Lacan

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

Author: Frank Langella

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.

Author: Ron Lewis

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

Author: Ron Lewis

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.

Author: Ron Livingston

The one thing I missed was never having children. It just wasn't in the cards, I guess.

Author: Jeanette MacDonald

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

Author: Mary MacLane

That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

Author: Joe Mantegna

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

Author: Cheech Marin

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

Author: Van Morrison

I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

Author: Steve Nash

I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

Author: Jeremy Northam

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Author: Jane Quinn

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

Author: Mitchell Reiss

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

Author: Mark Roberts

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Author: Richard Roeper

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

Author: Lee Ryan

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.

Author: John Shadegg

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

Author: Louise Slaughter

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Author: Preston Sturges

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

Author: Andrew Tobias

We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

Author: Arthur Waite

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Author: Malcolm Wallop

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Author: Arsene Wenger

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

Author: Jonny Wilkinson

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Author: Flip Wilson