If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
Ron Livingston

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.
King Farouk

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Van Morrison

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
Alija Izetbegovic

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Les Brown

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
Gavin Bryars

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
Lara St. John

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Nelson Algren

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
Arsene Wenger

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.
Melissa Bean

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
Mario Lemieux

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde