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The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. – Charles R. Swindoll
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. – Alexander Woollcott
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia"
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
They say golf is not a contact sport. Not the way we play it. – Alice Cooper, BBC6 Radio, The Bruce Dickinson show
Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either. – Jerry Coleman
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. – Chinese Proverb
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. – Miguel de Cervantes
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality. – Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre-match team talk
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others. – Johathan Sacks
We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. – Heraclitus
We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can. – Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide. – Nathan M. Pusey
We pass the word around we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry we meditate over the literature we play the music we change our minds we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. – Lewis Thomas
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse. – Danish proverb
What we play is life. – Louis Armstrong
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. – Ty Cobb
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing. – Theodore Roosevelt
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. – William Shakespeare, Henry V
When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy Are they presuming comedy is easier – Carol Burnett
When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play! – Mehmet Murat ildan
When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all. – Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play. – Eric Hoffer

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