Stacked Deck Quotes

#1. When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

Pat Riley

#2. There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

Merle Shain

#3. If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

John D. MacDonald

#4. He might have perfect form and better swordsmanship, but I had one thing on my
side that stacked the deck in my favor. I was absolutely crazy.

Katherine McIntyre

#5. Never be like these fucking losers who think the deck is stacked against them," my grandma often told me. "You can do anything you want to." Their

J.D. Vance

#6. As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

Emil Nolde

#7. When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.

John Darnielle

#8. love is a dream we all wish to have

Anonymous

#9. Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

Warren Buffett

#10. New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

Ernst Mayr

#11. Art is a wound turned into light.

Georges Braque

#12. I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.

Ted Cruz

#13. They'd used sex instead of communication in the past, and it had turned out disastrously.

Miranda Liasson

#14. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

Bill O'Reilly

#15. Even if you are perfect, the world isn't. The secret is to know that the deck is stacked, that you will lose, that your hands or judgment will slip, and yet still struggle to win...

Paul Kalanithi

#16. The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

Linda Chavez

#17. At meetings you have to explain what you've accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch.

Douglas Coupland

#18. We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Charlotte Bunch

#19. Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.

Paulo Coelho

#20. The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.

Hillary Clinton

#21. The deck is stacked against Obama.

Ron Fournier

#22. Mia, I told you how I feel. I'm an asshole and I don't say or show how I feel very often, so how about you just fucking enjoy it. -Christopher Mason

Sadie Grubor

#23. Being God is not all it's cracked up to be, and it's not as easy as one would think it would be. You'd think the deck would be really stacked in your favor as God, but of course, I've run into some pretty big obstacles and problems.

Misha Collins

#24. It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.
He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck.

Malcolm X

#25. He had our Jessa, and blood would rain across the world until we got her back.

Jaymin Eve

#26. 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

#27. Taking a deep breath, he made a second attempt. "It's so hard to let Claire go. Romantics are forever people.

Thomas Allen

#28. Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times, but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top,

Hillary Clinton

#29. It came down to so many factors: an underdog who refused to surrender, a presumed victor who refused to fight, disgruntled Democrats - on the left and right - who, by deserting their party, merely strengthened it, and fearful Republican farmers, who in the end, proved more farmer than Republican.

David Pietrusza