Top 100 Not A Game Quotes
#1. It's a game changer, not a game ender.
Joe Teti
#2. But it doesn't mean anything without someone beside him. It's not a game if he's the only one playing.
David Levithan
#3. Football is not a game for the weak of heart, because every day you've got a hundred reasons to take all those pads off and say, 'F-k it.'
Lawrence Taylor
#4. This is not a game of Who The Fuck Are You.
Eddie Izzard
#5. Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over ... Death is not anything ... death is not ... It's the absence of presence, nothing more ... the endless time of never coming back ... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound ...
Tom Stoppard
#6. This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called 'Gurgeh'. The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game. Me? I'll tell you about me later. This is how the story begins.
Anonymous
#8. News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.
John Oliver
#9. Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#10. Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.
Mr. Lee
#11. Sorry! But I'm not a game played when ever you want to play it!
Gina Karablieh
#12. I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.
Yao Ming
#14. Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.
Ken Livingstone
#15. For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it's a religion.
Jeffrey Archer
#16. War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.
Leo Tolstoy
#18. love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love
Rupi Kaur
#19. Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.
Tiffeny Milbrett
#20. Playing is a game. Love is an act. Don't pretend to love someone when all you plan to do is play. Love is not a game. It is a lifetime commitment.
Kemi Sogunle
#21. Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.
Ivan Krastev
#22. Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.
Arnold J. Mandell
#23. Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
Gary Gygax
#24. Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
Ben Hogan
#25. I never think of this business as fun. I don't know why. I think I've actually said something about it being fun, but I don't think of it that way. It's not fun, doing it. It's joyful, it's passionate, it's rewarding, it's a pursuit of truth, but I don't think of it as fun. It's not a game.
Donald Sutherland
#26. Love is a commitment not a game
if want play to game go ahead play but Don't give it name LOVE.it is your right to live your life and play any game as you want, but its not your right and its not right to destroy anyone's life
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#28. Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
George Will
#29. No. It's not a game. This is the world. It is not the one we were supposed to have, but it's the one we made.
We did this. We did it with open eyes and willing hands. We broke it, and there is no putting it back together.
But I'm damned already... so at least I'm going to try.
Jonathan Hickman
#31. Maybe I should know the rules," he says softly.
"Pfft. I'm not a game." I reach out to poke his shoulder, and unexpectedly he catches my finger.
"Sometimes, I'm not so sure.
Brooklyn Skye
#32. I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.
Cassandra Clare
#33. When you're younger you want the boy who knows how to play the game but when you're older you want the man who knows when it's not a game anymore.
Christina Lauren
#34. For I am the kind of dangerous dreamer who executes all his reveries, wishes, words, promises, plans. The wildest and the lightest. A wish for me is not a game: it's a creation.
Anais Nin
#36. Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen ...
Ed Zern
#37. Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.
Rudolf Steiner
#38. When is a game not a game? When the game is afoot.
Evelyn Cullet
#39. The PS3 is not a game machine. We've never once called it a game machine ... With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine with supercomputer calculation capabilities for home entertainment.
Ken Kutaragi
#40. It's not a game if you don't cheat, it's just two sods making a mess with fifty-two pieces of paper.
Catherynne M Valente
#41. Perhaps you should consider your difficulty in getting past Wendlyn's naval defences to be a sign that you should stop playing at being a god."
"Playing?" The King smiled, his crooked teeth glowing yellow in the firelight. "I am not playing. And this is not a game.
Sarah J. Maas
#43. A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
Madeleine Albright
#44. Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.
Mas Oyama
#45. The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#46. Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.
Markus Persson
#48. This is not a game, and I am tired of people around here forgetting where they put their nuts!' Frank draws the attention of the officers gawking at the TV set; waiting for Connor to start streaming again.
Luis Samways
#49. Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Felix Frankfurter
#50. This is not a game, you horrible man,' Mr. Poe said. 'Dominos is a game. Water polo is a game. Murder is a crime, and you will go to jail for it. I will drive you to the police station in town right this very minute.
Lemony Snicket
#51. To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.
Bill Klem
#52. Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..
But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups!
Sujit Lalwani
#53. This is most definitely not a game anymore. This woman ..., she owns me.
Stylo Fantome
#54. The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
Max Beerbohm
#55. Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
Linus Pauling
#56. Literature is not a game for the cloistered elect. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed.
John Steinbeck
#57. (Don't take life as a ADVANTAGE take it SERIOUSLY because it's not a game)
Sharon M. Draper
#58. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.
Leo Tolstoy
#59. Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.
Jerome K. Jerome
#60. I'm not a game-show contestant, I'm a U.S. senator.
Marco Rubio
#61. This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
Marion Barry
#62. Games? War is not a game, my friend. Games are for small children and old men like me. War is a young man's blighted delight
Renee Ahdieh
#63. There's truth in the idea we're never going to be perfect in love but we can get close. And the closer we get, the healthier we will be. Love is not a game any of us can win, it's just a story we can live and enjoy.
Donald Miller
#64. Love is not a game, ladies. Treat it like one, and you're bound to lose. Everyone talks about the rewards of finding that one person. Nobody warns you about the pain of losing him.
Lauren Layne
#65. I love sports. The spirit and the fight you put to win a game. It is just like life except that life is not a game. There is no "retry" option in real life and you don't get to get a bonus life.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#66. Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
Michael Behe
#67. Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
Alexander Alekhine
#69. Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.
Gene Littler
#70. Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams - either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it's dependent upon those who stand beside you.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#71. You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
Warren Buffett
#72. Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.
Wanda Landowska
#73. Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.
Ben Feldman
#74. I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.
Shia Labeouf
#75. In reality, the vagina is not a game of soccer to be kicked around like a ball. Its goal is to love and not keep score of how many times it's beaten the competition. Having a vagina is a beautiful thing and shouldn't be locked up or controlled by those who do not have one.
Sadiqua Hamdan
#76. Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.
Ernie Els
#78. There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
Elliot Richardson
#79. When the Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He sees not what you lost or won, but how you played the game!
A.A. Khan
#80. And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.
Joan Collins
#81. it did not so much judge the quality of a trader's performance as encourage him to game the system by working for short-term profits at the expense of possible blowups - like
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#82. D-Bo had a great game, so now a lot of teams, they're not sure what to do. They can't just key on me. They've got to key on both of us. D-Bo had a coming-out party.
Calvin Johnson
#83. My dad likes to tease me over this. We weren't there at Fenway, and it wasn't a consequential game, but Trot Nixon let a ball go through his legs, and from that moment on, I hated Trot Nixon. Really irrational. Based in nothing. But did not like him.
Katie Nolan
#84. Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.'
Joyce DeWitt
#85. Thus evolved some members of the Core - not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy.
Dan Simmons
#86. The game has such a hold on golfers because they compete not only against an opponent, but also against the course, against par, and most surely- against themselves.
Arnold Palmer
#87. You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.
Duke Snider
#89. As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run ... What an interest it imparts to life!.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#90. It's all ka-ka, saying mind is really brain. Sure, my hand is in my pocket. Is my pocket my hand? Every wino on M Street knows a thought is a thought and not some cells or chazerei going on in the brain. They know that jealousy is not some kind of game from Atari.
William Peter Blatty
#91. What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.
Steve Spurrier
#92. Not just me but every professional footballer will tell you they miss playing the game, I miss the game especially as I retired early, not because I was a bad player but I retired solely for health reasons.
Fabrice Muamba
#93. I will not slip my dog before the game's a-foot. - But,
Walter Scott
#94. I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge any more.
David Feherty
#95. When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.
Mackenzie Astin
#96. I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#97. I have zero idea of what my involvement with 'The Lying Game' is going to be. I'm a character that may or may not be permanently involved.
Tyler Christopher
#98. Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.
Mark Cuban
#99. We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
Eugene Kennedy
#100. I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.
Willem Dafoe
