Gouketsuji Quotes & Sayings

Up to this point White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head — Siegbert Tarrasch

You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I've learned one thing in all my years in the business, it's that often things don't work out the way you want at first. But that doesn't mean you should give up. — Russell Simmons

I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on. — Zora Neale Hurston

I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much. — David Levithan

God is not mean, but he is dangerous. — Dallas Willard

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce. — Richard Flanagan

Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about nothing. Getting pissed-off over anything and everything. Day by day, year by year, grinding. Instead of helping each other you just sliced away, picked at this or that. Goading. Endless goading. It became a cheap contest. And once you got into it, it became habitual. You couldn't seem to get out. You almost didn't want to get out. And then you did get out. All the way. — Charles Bukowski

You cannot get a new economy without a new society. — Alvin Toffler

Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business. — Katharine Weymouth

It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus; All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. Then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns and also he got a race car. Is any of this getting through to you? — Billy West

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe. — Eli Wallach

Her roommate was at the table with a grin that was all trouble. "So you're not going to tell me about last night?"

Erica rolled her eyes and went about getting her breakfast. "You saw Reed. How do you think it went?"

She chuckled. "Being hot doesn't mean you're good in bed."

Erica peered over her shoulder. "We never even got to the bed."

Trin's eyes widened. "Oh gods! I eat at this table! — Lisa Kessler

Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them, — Matt Millen