Jean Pictet Quotes & Sayings

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess. — Magnus Carlsen

Magnus had come to a horrible realization. One that he knew would cause him nothing but pain and suffering from that day forward.
But there was no changing the truth of it.
He had fallen in love with her. — Morgan Rhodes

He who can see his own mistake can become absolute supreme Self (Parmatma)! — Dada Bhagwan

All the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult. — Olivia De Havilland

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written. — Rush Limbaugh

If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests. — Richard Dawkins

I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went. — Kelly Clarkson

I spend a lot of time talking to young and emerging producers on Twitter, feeding back thoughts and encouraging them. — Tiesto

Mr. Hempseed shook his head with an infinity of wisdom, tempered by deeply-rooted mistrust of the British climate and the British Government. — Emmuska Orczy

The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy. Let us speak of the first. — Frederic Bastiat

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. — Thomas Carlyle