#games

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #games




The first is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.


Peggy Fleming


#love

The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.


Gregory Maguire


#memory #mind #mind-games #men

Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.


Edward Fitzgerald


#life #war #life

You call that a kiss?


Suzanne Collins


#haymitch #movies #the-hunger-games #movies

I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this angle.' 'Where is Haymitch, anyway? Isn't he supposed to protect us from this sort of thing?' says Peeta. 'With all that alcohol in him, it's probably not advisable to have him around an open flame,' I say.


Suzanne Collins


#fire #haymitch #the-hunger-games #alcohol

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.


Daniel Suarez


#human #mammals #nature #play #nature

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.


Rumi


#games #open-secret #quatrains #secret

Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask. "Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.


Suzanne Collins


#katniss #mockingjay #suzanne-collins #war #destruction

Where's your boyfriend, District 12? Still hanging on?" She asks. Well, as long as we're talking I'm alive. "He's out there now. Hunting Cato," I snarl at her. Then I scream at the top of my lungs. "Peeta!" Clove jams her fist into my windpipe, very effectively cutting off my voice. But her head's whipping from side to side, and I know for a moment she's at least considering I'm telling the truth. Since no Peeta appears to save me, she turns back to me. "Liar," she says with a grin. "He's nearly dead. Cato knows where he cut him. You've probably got him strapped up in some tree while you try to keep his heart going. What's in the pretty little backpack? That medicine for Lover Boy? Too bad he'll never get it.


Suzanne Collins


#cato #clove #hunger-games #katniss-everdeen #peeta-mellark

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.


Suzanne Collins


#katniss-everdeen #self #suzanne-collins #katniss