Cards You Have Been Dealt Quotes

#1. There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#2. Now is the time!" Ysabelle cried. "Now do I accede to the throne and claim my place as Handmaiden to Orion!

Robin Jarvis

#3. I've been thrown into a turbulent triangle, but even though I have deep feelings for Shiray doesn't mean my feelings will disappear for Melanie immediately. Fate has really dealt me a cruel hand of cards.

B. Truly

#4. You are all I ever need.

T.S. Krupa

#5. we play the cards we've been dealt - as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says - based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards.

Susan Meissner

#6. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

Mark Thomas

#8. Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve.

David Duchovny

#9. Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.

Jeannette Walls

#10. There is no why. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.

Marta Acosta

#12. Falling in love is a series of moments in which the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Those moments are not continuous, but the sense of union with another person is just about the best thing there is.

Caroline Kennedy

#13. I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.

Rick Riordan

#14. Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

Sam Harris

#15. I trust that you'll find your way, and whether you succeed or not isn't significantly important. What damns a man lies in the choices he makes, not in the cards he's been dealt.

Yvonne Von Innes

#16. The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above all, forgiving.

James E. Faust

#17. Smile like that while asking me for the moon, and I'll find some way to give it to you.

Courtney Lane

#18. It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.

Macklemore

#19. Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards.
- Alton Richard

Louis Sachar

#20. Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my body

Malebo Sephodi

#21. If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

Scotty McCreery

#22. When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

Dennis Miller

#23. Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

Max Walker

#24. The truth is, guys want to be the center of the universe. Don't believe me? Ask one.

Harriet Showman

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

Anurag Shourie

#26. Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

Diane Ravitch

#27. He can't bear it. I've sat there with him and there is nothing I can say to the guy, nothing that is going to make it any better. He's been dealt the shittiest hand of cards you can imagine.

Jojo Moyes

#28. Fred prepared a board game he had created for the entire family to play. And they did.

J.M.K. Walkow

#29. I've been dealt a fuller set of cards than the ones passed to Lily and Daisy. They're just as strong, if not stronger. I've always been here as extra reinforcement, and however old we become, however gray we are, that won't ever change.

Krista Ritchie

#30. While we can't always engineer our own happy endings, we can learn how to be more happy than not with the cards we've been dealt.

Adam Silvera

#31. I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe - with the part of it I occupy - and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.

Gene Roddenberry

#32. Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

Julian Baggini

#33. They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#34. 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.

Frank Langella