Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least…

Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

— Evan Esar

A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.

— John Wooden

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

— Shelagh Delaney

“Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Life is game that can only be played, never won…

— Melchor Lim

“Life is a game that is only played once, and I lost. There is no second chance.”

— Sabahattin Ali

Life is the game that must be played.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

— Susan Orlean

I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of…

— Malcolm Turnbull

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery…

— M. Scott Peck

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

— Margaret Atwood

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ...…

— Herbert Butterfield

You switched the days," I said, dismayed. "You blew the tire. You..." I trailed off, probably because the next words out of my mouth…

— Ally Carter

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”……

— Martin Gardner