Everyman Chess Quotes & Sayings

I won't fatten them in cages, though. I won't ply them with poisoned fruit items. I won't change them into clockwork images or talking shadows. I won't drain out their life's blood. They can do all those things for themselves. — Margaret Atwood

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men. — Jane Harman

We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today. — George W. Bush

I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected. — Mason Cooley

In general, I almost always watch foreign films. — Alexandra Fuller

I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me. — Columba Bush

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it. — Mary Oliver

Doctor Simons? This is Thomson... No, without a 'P', as in Venezuela... — Herge

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination. — Marianne Moore

If we want to create a different future, we must have the courage to look at the past. — Dan B. Allender

without noise of drums or — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Turning to me, he said, Take away your hand; it has deceived you. The road of the Tradition is not for the chosen few. It is everyone's road. And the power that you think you have is worthless, because it is a power that is shared by all. You should have refused your sword. If you had done so, it would have been given to you, because you would have shown that your heart was pure. But just as I feared, at the supreme moment you stumbled and fell. Because of your avidity, you will now have to seek again for your sword. And because of your pride, you will have to seek it among simple people. Because of your fascination with miracles, you will have to struggle to recapture what was about to be given to you so generously. — Paulo Coelho

I fought for peace in the fifties. — Pete Seeger