Maurice Baring Quotes

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

Maurice Baring

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 27, 1874 - December 14, 1945

Topics

YourselfFunEnjoyYouPlaySerious

I'm having so much fun, because you know what? They cast a Star Wars fan in a Star Wars movie. Biiiiiig mistake!

John Boyega

MistakeFunYouKnowStarCast

The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Max Weber

JusticeEvilViewMoralityModern

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Spike Jonze

GoodGood IdeaFiredGetWilling

I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian Revolution when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, and my family - me, my brother, and my parents - escaped over the border to Austria. We just took whatever we could carry. It was perilous, but we made it across.

Tommy Ramone

FamilyBrotherParentsMeBorder

We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.

Rod Steiger

GoUnderstandTryComeBetween

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

Rush Limbaugh

NowWashingtonClassLiberalismUsed

If you will do what God tells you to do, there's no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Joyce Meyer

GodHellDevilYouEarthPerson

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

Javier Bardem

GreatWorldBelieveThinkYouActor

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Dawn French

ConfidenceWomenYouLoseDangerous

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

Cilla Black

LifeLiveTodayTomorrowMeBlessed

Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.

Bruce Feirstein

MusicImpactFilmmakingHollywood

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.

William Glasser

LifeSayYesFailUsBecause

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