Overplay Your Hand Quotes & Sayings

Don't object so much, you'll live longer. — Michael Nesmith

And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love me. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely. — Billy Graham

I regularly buy and sell cars, but I do not buy and sell fleets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I just happened to have enough time to be able to take other parts between those first few Twilight films. But it wasn't about proving to people that I had something else to give. — Kristen Stewart

A working woman, rising before dawn to spin and needing light in her cottage room, piles brushwood on a smoldering log, and the whole heap kindled by the little brand goes up in a mighty blaze. Such was the fire of Love, stealthy but all-consuming, that swept through Medea's heart. In the turmoil of her soul, her soft cheeks turned from rose to white and white to rose. — Apollonius Of Rhodes

Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the U.S. Senate — Herman Melville

A player's first move isn't necessarily the truest or clearest view of that person I'll get, but it's often the most naked, because it takes a while to situate yourself within an imaginary landscape. When you respond to the initial subscriber packet with your opening move - when you come to the bridge - you haven't had a chance to get much sense of the game's rhythms, so you're awkward, halting, more likely to overplay your hand. The open path at the overpass gives way to grand schemes, huge, multipart responses, whole narratives from within the canvas newly forming inside the player's imagination. I keep myself out of it; I interpret and react, like a flowchart responding flatly to a person who's asking it how to live. — John Darnielle

It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man ... to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at. — Nathaniel Hawthorne