Cards Quotes

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

~ Jeannette Walls

Destiny plays its cards in a way that no one can comprehend.

~ Anurag Shourie

Time is drowning,Hearts are burning,Heads are rolling,Nothing can save you now,Tick tock, tick tock;Creatures talking,Weak are rising,White Queen’s nearing,Nothing can save you now,Tick tock, tick tock;Cards are bleeding,Crowns are sweating,Tea is spilling,Nothing can save you now,Tick tock, tick tock;Red Queen, here’s your warning,Wonderland’s raging,Alice is coming,Highness, time is drowning,And nothing can save you now,Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock…

~ Emory R. Frie

Where did you meet?” he pressed on.I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. “I was out for a run.”“From who?”I leaned back to take a long, very long, slow sip of that beer.Knox leaned forward. “I think we’re both bullsh*tting here, you ever play that card game?”“With my grandma, every Sunday after church.

~ Dannika Dark

Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have made my day and theirs too

~ Amit Kalantri

For a professional magician, a stack of playing cards is as good as a stack of money.

~ Amit Kalantri

A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.

~ Amit Kalantri

When destiny deals, you will find yourself staring at four cards. Inevitably, your hand will not change. Time passes and eventually you face three upturned aces, leaving one unknown. Deep down, you know what the fourth holds. Do you have the courage to flip one last time knowing there is no going back? Fate knows no bounds...

~ Virginia Alison

Life may not have dealt you a great set of cards... but who says the one with better cards will win?

~ Manoj Vaz

But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It’s all in the draw and how you play it.

~ Mackenzie Herbert

All the magicians have 52 mutual friends.

~ Amit Kalantri

On Sundays, Presbyterians were not allowed to eat hot food or read the funny papers or travel the shortest journey; parents believed in Hell and believed tiny babies could go there. Baptists were not supposed to know, up until their dying day, how to play cards or dance. And so on.

~ Eudora Welty

So when my cards are side of... I'm losing I need to suicide??

~ Deyth Banger

Love's a game where the odds are permanently fixed. The house always wins, and anyone stupid enough to sit at the table is lucky if they walk away with their soul intact.

~ Kathleen Peacock

Nick leans down and kisses my eyelids. “Loving you, Zara, is a full-time job. It’s a great job, don’t get me wrong. It’s the best job in the universe. But it is not easy, because you tend to . . .”“Get hurt?” Betty suggests. “Find trouble? Pass out? Break arms?”“All of the above.” Nick laughs.My hand finds Nick’s wrist and I grab onto its thickness. “You know, I’m the patient here. Where’s the bedside manner? Where’s the sympathy?”“Zara, sympathy is just a good excuse to buy greeting cards and make sorry eyes and secretly gloat over how glad you are that you aren’t the person whose crap is hanging out there for the world to see,” Betty says.

~ Carrie Jones

You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some form of illegal activity at your home.

~ Steven Magee

The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.

~ Richard Kadrey

The cards always look different when it’s your turn to play them, loaded with subtly different possibilities.

~ Alastair Reynolds

The story was an 82 year old guy with a broken neck. He had apparently fallen in his bathroom that morning, cracking his 1st and 2nd vertebrae. I had a vague memory from medical school that this wasn't a good thing--the expression hangman's fracture kept bobbing up from the well of facts I do not use --but I had a much more distinct impression that this was not a case for cardiology.And Ortho isn't taking him because? I said wearily.Because he's got internal organs, dude.I sighed. So why me?Because they got an EKG.The MAO was clearly enjoying himself. I remembered he had recently been accepted to a cardiology fellowship. I braced myself for the punch line.And?And there's ectopy on it. Ectopy. He then made a noise intended to suggest a ghost haunting something.

~ Terrence Holt

I'm going to be frank, Max...Of course. All cards on the table. But he gave me a poker smile.

~ Alfred Alcorn

Will be there any spinoff?A lesson?Person of Interest have a lessons... first we all die alone as a second when you start understanding the somebody... it comes a moment when the cards end up and he dies.

~ Deyth Banger

We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.

~ Jay Chiat

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

~ Flip Wilson

Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.

~ Seth Shostak

As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.

~ Craig Sager

Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions.

~ Seth Shostak

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

~ Frank Peretti

I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards.

~ Paul O'grady

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

~ P. J. O'rourke

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.

~ Lee Ryan

Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP cards and a credit card. Some food stamp recipients say some cashiers have made them feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.

~ Donna Brazile

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

~ Jack London

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

~ Josh Billings

There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.

~ Elizabeth Warren

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

~ Brian Skerry

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

~ Finley Peter Dunne

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she'd pay a little toward the purchase.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

~ Henry Ward Beecher