Hold All The Cards Quotes

#1. The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.

Eoin Colfer

#2. I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#3. I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen?

Drew Barrymore

#4. Psychics, astrology, tarot cards - all these mystical non-sense are signs of a weak mind. Whenever such garbage starts grabbing hold of you, seek the help of a physician or therapist.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. There's a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that it's kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.

Mark Pellegrino

#6. I wasn't going anywhere, so how could I be going in the wrong direction?

Leila Sales

#7. Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Gregory David Roberts

#8. All men are born free: just not for long.

John Le Carre

#9. All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.

Jules Verne

#10. But I didn't want this. Feeling like a house of cards and realizing he had the power to hold me together or scatter me.

Natalie Herzer

#11. Because you have to keep them on tenterhooks until the end. It's like when you're playing cards: you have to hold a few trump cards for the final part of the game.

Joel Dicker

#12. One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.

Steven Millhauser

#13. You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.

Oscar Romero

#14. The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

Hanna Rosin

#15. Essentially, he taught that it doesn't make sense to upset ourselves about what is beyond our control. We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life. The only choice we have is our attitude about the cards we hold and the finesse with which we play our hand.

Sylvia Boorstein

#16. You can spit until you're dry, but you'll never make a lake

James Howe

#17. My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.

Karen Hawkins

#18. I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions

Reif Larsen

#19. Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

Orrin Woodward

#20. 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.

Al Alvarez

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

Josh Billings

#22. The Iranians know they hold high cards because of oil.

Daniel Yergin

#23. One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

Gale Harold