Abeid Mitchell Quotes & Sayings

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player — Siegbert Tarrasch

Don't be so goddamn proper. Don't be such a fucking saint. — James Ellroy

Empathy isn't just something that happens to us - a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain - it's also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves. It's made of exertion, that dowdier cousin of impulse. Sometimes we care for another because we know we should, or because it's asked for, but this doesn't make our caring hollow. The act of choosing simply means we've committed ourselves to a set of behaviors greater than the sum of our individual inclinations: I will listen to his sadness, even when I'm deep in my own. To say "going through the motions" - this isn't reduction so much as acknowledgment of the effort - the labor, the motions, the dance - of getting inside another person's state of heart or mind. — Rebecca Skloot

The old men send the young to die in war,
But if the roles were reversed, what then the score? — Alan Cook

Thomas Jefferson asked himself "In what country on earth would you rather live " He first answered "Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life." But he continued "which would be your second choice " His answer "France. — Thomas Jefferson

Just once, I'd love to be heartbroken because someone loved me and left me, instead of heartbroken because I never got on that train at all. — Kristan Higgins

I can't stand John McCain. — Harry Reid