Besra Hawk Quotes & Sayings

Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture ... what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view ... but you always want to be counterattacking ... a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later. — Barney Chavous

I didn't offer transparency. I provided one quarterly report in letter form. That was all you got. I basically demanded that if you're going to invest in my fund you need to accept my terms. The terms not being super highs, but just, I'm not going to cater to you. — Michael Burry

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers. — David Sedaris

Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon

We didn't know what he did on the weekends. What sort of person showed up on Monday and had no interest in sharing what transpired during the two days of the week when one's real life took place? His weekends were long dark shadows of mystery. In all likelihood, he spent his days off in the office, cultivating his master plan. Mondays we'd come in refreshed and unsuspecting and he would already be there, ready to spring something on us. Maybe he never left. Certainly he never came around with a coffee mug to palaver with us on a Monday morning. We didn't judge him for that, so long as he didn't judge us for our custom of easing into a new workweek. — Joshua Ferris

The search for identity in one's youth is a journey of alternate boredom and agony interrupted by flash of joy. — Victoria Clayton

White dope would be meth, cocaine, heroine. — Robyn Carr

... and it was extraordinary to me that some of the newspapers could have found good words for the butchery on the coast. But people are like that bout places in which they aren't really interested and where thy don't have to live. — V.S. Naipaul

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage. — Gail Kelly

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love. — Ovid

I'm just saying that when there is little left to lose, the consequences of one's actions don't carry the same weight ... painful or otherwise. — Amy A. Bartol

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink. — George Burns

The point is that we all caught. And we try in one way or another to widen ourself free. For instance, me and Ludie. When I was with Ludie, I didn't feel so caught. But then Ludie died. We go around trying one thing or another, but we caught anyhow. — Carson McCullers

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. — Arthur Conan Doyle

You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities. — Rosemary Clement-Moore