Alekhines Quotes & Sayings

When her voice cracked and tears started spilling down her cheeks, I panicked. I wasn't good at consoling people at the best of times, but even a trained therapist would have struggled in my shoes. What could you possibly say to a girl who'd dug for hours trying to rescue her family after they'd been buried alive? — Violet Cross

When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators of modern civilization — Joe Novella

Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work. — John Lewis

I don't like animals. It's a strange thing, I don't like men and I don't like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me. — Samuel Beckett

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. — Andrew Young

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses. — Marcus Buckingham

The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes. — Ronald Sukenick

Be captivated by your hearts desire, not distracted by your minds fear. — Nikki Rowe

Education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can't have higher-level learning- you can't analyze-without retrieving information.' And you can't retrieve information without putting the information in there in the first place. The dichotomy between "learning" and "memorizing" is false, Matthews contends. You can't learn without memorizing, and if done right, you can't memorize without learning. — Joshua Foer

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself. — Natalie Portman

Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives. To strive to live each day with serenity and courage. — Wilferd Peterson

Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite. — Dean Koontz

The worst feeling in the world is not losing your friend forever, but rather having patronizing people tell you that the love you have for your friend and the connection and emotion you have towards them is an illness to be cured, a problem to be covered up and hidden away by the power of mood-altering drugs. I used to trust doctors when I was younger... now I've lost my trust in all mental health professionals forever. — Rebecca McNutt

I listen to so many different kinds of music - I mean, I listen to everything. I listen to everything from Bon Jovi to Taylor Swift. It just goes everywhere. — Mark Indelicato