Koltanowski Chess Quotes & Sayings

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship
a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou. — Anthony Storr

Hockey lends itself to special events, including the Olympic competition: a glorious tournament of the best players in the world, putting on their national jerseys and playing on big rinks with no-goon Olympic rules and referee enforcement. — George Vecsey

I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths. — Lucy Lawless

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl? — Tommy Lasorda

Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess — George Koltanowski

You know how to put pretty words on a page, but you don't know shit about a woman's feelings. — Haruki Murakami

But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him. — C.S. Lewis

Saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz — Allen Ginsberg

Most of us have a lot more experience being consumers than producers, so we tend to view things through the lens of demand rather than supply. — Steven D. Levitt

The practice of invoking the myths and cultural practices of native cultures to give moral support to practices within our current culture is an increasingly common phenomenon. Thus, many people cite the example of native cultures to defend their habit of meat-eating. The act of wrenching a narrative out of the context of one culture and grafting it onto another is not only disrespectful and self-serving, it is an act of violence in its own right. — Marti Kheel

If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. — Mahmoud Darwish

I hope you achieve what you two are trying to do," Rick said. "Just remember, the answer is almost never where everyone else has been looking. And the answer is almost always covered up by some kind of danger. — Rich Hoffman

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded. — George Koltanowski