Games Quotes

“Because I don’t like being the fool who’d been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Narcissistic Supply (noun)--

He liked her but was too ashamed to admit it because she was off limits. So he ran her name down in the mud and made sure everyone would believe that he never cared. However, he kept one foot in her life because that is what obsession is like for a narcissist. They can't let you go, but they won't let others know that they are being immoral. If they can't have you then everyone will think your crazy and no one will ever believe your story. Obsession runs in their veins and they will never give you up. You have become their dirty little secret, their narcissistic supply. They like the rivalry and jealousy they created because it means they are desired by everyone. It doesn't matter if they divorced their ex and got a new woman in their life. That person will be told the same lie about you and they will continue with this obsession that you still care about them. When in reality you loathe their very existence. At the very heart of narcissistic supply is obsession and this deep seeded feeling that they are missing out.”
― Shannon L. Alder, The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse

“Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“What is a game?' Marx said. 'It is tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“This was what happened to girls who played dark games; they lost to the men who played them better.”
― Nenia Campbell, Little Deaths

“It's not luck - there's probably no such thing as luck, and if there is you can't depend on it. All you can do is play the percentages, play your best game, and when the critical bet comes - in every money game there is always a critical bet - you hold your stomach tight and you push hard. That's the clutch. And that's where your born loser loses”
― Walter Tevis, The Hustler

“If you regret your move, make another. There are games yet to play.'

'I already won,' I remind him.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone.”
― Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth

“Success is no accident....
It is hard work, perseverance , learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all...

love of what you are doing....
Tribute to the legend Pele”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“We made a bargain,' Rhysand said. I flinched as he brushed a stray lock of my hair from my face. He ran his fingers down my cheek- a gentle caress. The throne room was all too quiet as he spoke his next words to Tamlin. 'One week with me at the Night Court every month in exchange for my healing services after her first task.' He raised my left arm to reveal the tattoo, whose ink didn't shine as much as the paint on my body. 'For the rest of her life,' he added casually, but his eyes were now upon Amarantha.

The Faerie Queen straightened a little bit- even Jurian's eye seemed fixed on me, on Rhysand. For the rest of my life- he said it as if it were going to be a long, long while.

He thought I was going to beat her tasks.

I stared at his profile, at the elegant nose and sensuous lips. Games- Rhysand liked to play games, and it seemed I was now to be a key player in whatever this one was.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Do you want to play a game?' He shuffled closer, eyes bright. Reaching into his pocket, he produced some little metal figures. Three silver foxes resting in the middle of his callused palm. Inset chips of peridot sparkled in their eyes.
...
'How do we play?'

'You throw them.' He formed a cage of his hands with the foxes inside, shook it up, and then tossed them into the grass. 'If they land standing, you get ten points. If they land on their backs, you get five points. If they land on their side, no points.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“One of the morals to the story: Don't just study your cards... study the players.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“One of the most complex computer games ever devised is called Dwarf Fortress. It is not much to look at: its graphics are the terminal-based structures that were in vogue in the 1980s. What makes Dwarf Fortress an extraordinary game is the depth of agent-based logic: every character, every enemy unit, even pets are endowed with a hugely complex agent-based behavioural model. As an example, cats in Dwarf Fortress can stray into puddles of spilled beer, lick their paws later, and succumb to alcohol poisoning.

Yet agent-based modeling is about much more than belligerent dwarves and drunk cats. Agent-based models are powerful computational tools to simulate large populations of boundedly rational actors who act according to preset preferences, although often enough in a stochastic manner.”
― Chris von Csefalvay, Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python

“Good old monopoly, training innocent children to become landlords since 1903”
― Juno Dawson, Stay Another Day

“At a time when the world entered in daydream...”
― The CULTZONE Pureland RPG Henrique Bouduard

“None of my friends know how to play imagining games the way you do," Melanie said. "Some of them can do it a little bit but they mostly don't have any very good ideas. And a lot of them only like ball games or other things that are already made up. But I like imagining games better than anything.”
― Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Egypt Game

“But they're not really paper dolls," Melanie said. "And I don't really play with them, not like moving them around and dressing them up and everything. They're just sort of a record of a game I play. I make up a family and then I find people who look like them in magazines and catalogues, just so I'll remember them better.”
― Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Egypt Game

“That’s when I realised it was all a game of chess. A game with too many checkmates for one board, and maybe too many pawns, with an enraged queen aiming to topple a king that fate had already forgiven and probably sent to purgatory.”
― Núria Bendicho Giró, Terres mortes

“Do not limit yourself to things that may lead you to successful path.

The self-limiting beliefs will hinder you reaching to your goals.

Think once!”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“Fitness is vital for sportsperson, I never take it for granted. My fitness mantra is healthy eating and daily exercise.”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“If you want success then you have to be a risk bearer in life, take that courageous step and go on until you achieve it.

Go ahead!”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“Stress is a consequences of negative happenings or impact in life. But important is how to overcome it.”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“The best shield a girl or a woman can have is courage.”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“It's not important whether you lose or win, what is that you participate and play, one fine day your experience will make you win.”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“Believe in yourself that you can and you will! As there are no limits to what we as women can achieve.”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“Second chances are rare and comes with fortune.. thus use the first wisely.

Think once!”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“Self-confidence will give you that success which no other way can help, it is the prime key.

Look into the mirror, say- Yes! you can

Think once!”
― Bhawna Dehariya

“But maybe people don’t want fantasy, they want to feel they’re in control, that they’re playing by rules they understand and that it’s possible to win.”
― Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

“Win people; games come and go.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“And would could Amarantha possibly have to test me about?'

I didn't balk from that violet stare. Amarantha's whore, Lucien had once called him. 'You lied to her. About Clare. You knew very well what I looked like.'

Rhysand sat up in a fluid movement and braced his forearms on his thighs. Such grace contained in such a powerful form. I was slaughtering in the battlefield before you were even born, he'd once said to Lucien. I didn't doubt it. 'Amarantha plays her games,' he said simply, 'and I play mine. It gets rather boring down here, day after day.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses