Checkmates Play Quotes & Sayings

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
Your sustenance and birthright are. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have. — Elizabeth Benedict

War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the means by which ideals are imposed. There is ultimately no way of combating a wrong idea but the setting forth of a right one. — Maude Royden

No matter what you have, or how lucky you think you are, there's nothing in this world you can hold on to so tightly that it can't be taken from you. — Adam Sternbergh

There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves. — Haruki Murakami

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude. — Sherry Turkle

Three's all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. — Garth Risk Hallberg

A burdened heart doesn't equate to a lack of faith. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can heal with a simple command. The burden comes from wondering if that's His will and may it be done. — Donna Lynn Hope

It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17 — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Weirdly, all the wood, dark walls, moody lighting, and oxblood leather makes the room kind of soft and romantic ... I know it's anything but; this is Christian's version of soft and romantic. — E.L. James

Blood is not destiny. — Paolo Bacigalupi

There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here. — Eddie Campbell