Quotes About Gambling Cards

#1. Simon and I by then were practicing to be apart, rehearsing together in the same room and often in the same conversation.

Elliot Perlman

#2. Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.

Jose Saramago

#4. He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

Kenny Rogers

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

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. You need peace to ground you and courage to act from the centre of yourself.

Jay Woodman

#7. True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

Adyashanti

#8. I've done my part, played my hand, even thrown in my cards when I had to. I've bet what I didn't have and bluffed until I had it. Link once said: Ridley Duchannes is always playing a game. I never told him, but he was right.

Kami Garcia

#9. I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They started in 1925, and then they went out of business around 1958.

Terry Zwigoff

#10. I've always played cards. I can't remember when there wasn't a gambling game going on somewhere, even if it was a craps game in a wheelbarrow on the backside of the racetrack.

Wilford Brimley

#11. This place is starting to feel like a home away from home," Rusty said, settling on the sofa. "We come here, we discuss evil sorcerers, we eat packets of peanuts. It's a soothing and familiar routine. Or it would be if people would just bring me some peanuts.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#12. I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.

Mother Teresa

#13. I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

Jonathan Swift

#14. I never told you this but I always thought the club should have recognised you far more when you retired. For the career that you had, one of Liverpool's greatest players, you should have had a much bigger and better send-off in your final match. That's just what I felt.

Luis Suarez

#15. I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Bil Keane

#16. Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

Sheryl Sandberg

#17. Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

Nikolai Gogol

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

Richard Roeper

#19. 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

#20. The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

Arthur Twining Hadley

#21. But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations - particularly when the something you're fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

Greg Bear

#22. True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

John Hay