Playing Games Quotes

“Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can’t. It’s either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Only a woman is capable of stalking someone, just so she could have the pleasure of ignoring him.”
― Aleksandra Ninkovic, Write like no one is reading

“It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland

“There is an aid for helping us to learn how to distinguish between the ego way and the higher way. It is pain. The ego way inevitably leads to pain, even if it seems to temporarily satisfy. The higher way does not. It works. And it works harmoniously. It brings the sort of success that has no bitter after-taste. It is not manipulative. It doesn’t play one person against another. It doesn’t feed anyone’s fantasies. It is honest and it protects the good.”
― Donna Goddard, Faith

“Human beings go through a 'camel phase' during which they carry all the foolish prejudices society burdens them with. Then comes the 'lion phase,' when they fight against all such prejudices. But there's another phase only a few achieve: the childhood phase. It's the highest phase, which requires one to consider life with the naïveté of a child, to play games, to be open to all kinds of influences, and to find one's lost innocence again. That's why I play games.”
― O.Z. Livaneli, Bliss

“How do you keep all the balls you got dancing in the air from crashing down on your fucking head, Rousseau?"
"Centuries of practice?”
― Heather R. Blair, Phoenix Broken

“That one has to be playing in order to be playing a game seems equally implausible. When professional athletes are performing in assigned games for wages, although they are certainly playing games, we are not at all inclined to conclude from that fact that they are without qualification playing. For we think of professional athletes as working when they play their games and as playing when they go home from work to romp with their children.”
― Bernard Suits

“Boys are rewarded for playing games where they line up by height and then run into walls. Perhaps I'm making that up--or perhaps you should do a Google search for "Guy Runs into Wall for Fun.”
― Gina Barreca, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times

“When you come against your better”
― Charity Momoa

“The heart is indeed unpredictable and it keeps playing games which the mind cannot comprehend.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Can I have this chance

“We can only be a queen if we have found a man worthy to be called a king.... otherwise we got to be keep an ace up our shoulders for these jokers”
― Renee' A. Lee

“We can only be a Queen if we have found a man worthy to be called a King...... otherwise we gotta keep an ace up our shoulder for these jokers.”
― Renee' A. Lee

“You could put him in that stuff they store dead animals in.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish