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Games Quotes (page 29)

Suzanne Collins quote: "I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me...."
I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out."-Rue in The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins
Do you play tennis, Senator?"Now and then," he said with a ghost of a smile. He didn't add he'd lettered i the sport at Harvard."I'd imagine chess would be your game-plotting, long-term strategy."His smile remained enigmatic as he reached for his wine. "We'll have to have a game."Shelby's low laugh drifted over him. "I believe we already have."His hand brushed lightly over hers. "Want a rematch?"Shelby gave him a look that made his blood spring hotly. "No. You might not outmaneuver me a... Nora Roberts
Not long after the book came out I found myself being driven to a meetingby a professor of electrical engineering in the graduate school I of MIT. He said that after reading the book he realized that his graduate students were using on him, and had used for the ten years and more he had been teaching there, all the evasive strategies I described in the book? mumble, guess-and-look, take a wild guess and see what happens, get the teacher to answer his own questions, etc. But as I later... John Holt
Another time, he was playing [chess] with his equal, the Duchess of Bourbon, who made a move that inadvertently exposed her king. Ignoring the rules of the game, he promptly captured it. "Ah," said the duchess, "we do not take Kings so." Replied Franklin in a famous quip: "We do in America. Walter Isaacson
Albert Camus quote: "I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and..."
I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and that you should never play games. Albert Camus
Joan Didion quote: "I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?"
I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game? Joan Didion
Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . . Suzanne Collins
Charles M. Schulz quote: "Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win......"
Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose."I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs. Charles M. Schulz
Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing. Don DeLillo
The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled. Michael Chabon
Suzanne Collins quote: "But there are worst games to play"
But there are worst games to play Suzanne Collins
And how did we then face the odds, of man's rude slapstick, yes, and God's? Quite at home and unafraid, Thank-you, in a game our dreams remade. Kurt Vonnegut
Erma Bombeck quote: "Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be..."
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. Erma Bombeck
The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing monetary policy but also changing the behavior of consumers, employers and workers. The role of a sudden, jarring policy shift is that it quickly alters expectations, signaling to the public that the rules of the game have changed dramatically - prices will not keep rising, nor will wages. Naomi Klein
He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment. J. R. R. Tolkien

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