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player games profound
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected. Charles Caleb Colton
play skills needs
It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well. Charles Spurgeon
play done form
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play. Alan Watts
play forget notes
You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play! Alan Watts
play what-matters bargaining
Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage. Alan Rosenberg
player sight league
It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved. Alan Pardew
play who-i-am people
Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. Alan Rickman
play careers america
I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact. Alan Rickman
play interesting people
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people Alan Rickman
ideas house stories
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Charles Dickens
ideas rocks tree
Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it. Charles Soule
ideas yellow people
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used. Charles Stross
ideas people want
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is. Charles Stanley
ideas good-work ifs
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them! Charles Spurgeon
ideas world incredibles
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts
ideas gentleman plausible
The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe. Alan Watts
ideas stink masters
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. Alan Watts
ideas matter certain
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts
quality contentment may
It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have. Charles Dickens
quality firsts needs
We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow. Alan Chadwick
quality way company
Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things. Akio Morita
quality opera soap
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. Camille Paglia
quality admire
There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities. Cal Ripken, Jr.
quality members duty
It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably Carl Levin
quality firsts quantity
Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality. Julian Baggini
quality gone use
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver. Arne Jacobsen
quality actors young
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop. Derek Jacobi