Checkmated Fanfiction Quotes & Sayings

If we wish our civilization to survive we must break with the habit of deference to great men. — Karl Popper

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. — George Orwell

The real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.'
My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory. — G.K. Chesterton

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. — Thomas Hobbes

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. — Jean Cocteau

I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better. — Jared Leto

The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief weare inclined to, and there are certain flatteries to the vanity of man which we all believe by nature, until we are awakened from our pleasing dream by rough facts. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Our heart is made by the love, for the love, and with the love. — Debasish Mridha

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!' — Jane Smiley

I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything — Beverly LaHaye

Don't worry. I have insurance. And battery-operated accessories that don't cheat on me or stalk me. Can't beat that! — Lex Martin

Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie husbands with children in ads, or they're IT geeks. — Kevin Kwan

I don't tell people I'm white anymore - I'm albino-Cambodian. — Christopher Titus