A Quote by Maeve Binchy

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

Maeve Binchy

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Maeve Binchy
Irish - Novelist
May 28, 1939 - June 30, 2012

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

Malcolm Turnbull

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.

James Brady

You've just got to kind of play the hand you're dealt.

Theo Epstein

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

Steve Alten

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Christopher Reeve

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

Jeannette Walls

Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves problems on its own. Often, enigmas that baffle our brains are dealt with easily, unconsciously, by the hand.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

Louise Erdrich

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Play the hand you're dealt.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I have to play the hand that was dealt me.

Jesse White

I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.

John Waters

Everyone in this world is dealt a different hand - some better, some worse than others - but what's more important is how you play that hand. This is what builds character. And with great character comes great reward.

Christine Ha

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You've got to put in the work. You've got to grind. You've got go through the struggle, and you've got to get it.

Conor McGregor

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

Barbara Feldon

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