Quotes about Play
It's time to make the most of the one life God gives us, and that means we have to learn how to play a little defense. Resolve today that the toxic people won't take you down or even distract you. Your mission matters too much for that.
- Gary Thomas
The long-drawn virgin vales; the mild blue hill-sides; as over these there steals the hush, the hum; you almost swear that play-wearied children lie sleeping in these solitudes, in some glad May-time, when the flowers of the woods are plucked. And all this mixes with your most mystic mood; so that fact and fancy, half-way meeting, interpenetrate, and form one seamless whole.
- Herman Melville
Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.
- Herman Melville
I'd never imagined I had the opportunity to play with Tom Brady, the greatest athlete in sports history.
- Mike Evans
The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.
- Napoleon Hill
America has not the option as to whether it will or it will not play a great part in the world," Roosevelt would argue. "It must play a great part. All that it can decide is whether it will play that part well or badly.
- Barack Obama
When I played the classics, I did so with a determined sort of reverence.
- Ernest Cline
I have said that if I leave Bayern I will go abroad. Then came this interesting offer from Liverpool. I took the loan offer seriously and discussed it with my family and girlfriend because I just want to play. But Bayern gave me the impression that they see a future for me. And therefore a change was not an issue anymore.
- Mario Gomez
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
- George Eliot
God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days.
- Max Lucado
I want to bring energy. I want my play to be infectious to other guys.
- Ryan Fitzpatrick
Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.
- Billy Graham