Thomas Hardy Quotes
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.Thomas Hardy
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
Nathalie Emmanuel -
You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
Dan Marino -
Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
V. E. Schwab -
To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
Gary Hamel -
'Game of Thrones' focuses on what's real.
Maisie Williams -
I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
Karl Malone
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I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.
Quentin Tarantino -
I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
Salman Rushdie -
Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
Ursula Burns -
There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.
Rahul Dravid -
I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
Walter Alston -
When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.
Harold Prince
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
Barbara Demick -
Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.
Ted Williams -
I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
Rafael Palmeiro -
Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
Dan Quayle -
In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
Zig Ziglar
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If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
Brian Lumley -
For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.
John Burnside -
It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
Karolyn Grimes -
Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
Thomas Hardy