Mprticia Quotes & Sayings

Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position. — Alexander Kotov

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore. — Nikki Giovanni

An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members. — Ted Malloch

How do you calibrate pain?" asked Jamie. "By cutting out the background pain of the world," answered Isabel. "By cutting all that out, not registering it, and responding only to those painful things that we can do something about. Because otherwise ... — Alexander McCall Smith

Who helped you most? Most often they (suffering people) answer by describing a quiet, unassuming person. Someone who was there whenever needed, who listened more than talked, who didn't keep glancing down at a watch, who hugged and touched, and cried. In short, someone who was available, and came on the sufferer's terms and not their own. — Philip Yancey

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes. — Elizabeth Warren

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.' — Henry Rollins

Every one has the right to refute any opinion. But no one has the right to prevent its expression. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact. — Donald E. Westlake

Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable. — Rick Riordan

I'm your Beloved, dammit! You're going to let me save your soul, and like it! — Katie MacAlister

Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output ... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort. — B.C. Forbes

Where there is Dharma there is no karma. So we have to lean on Dharmic values and we have to build a Dharmic family, we have to relate to that family and we have to relate to it deeply. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I opened the door of the Mercedes and got in. Man, that smell. It's leather, but not just leather. You know how, in Monopoly, there's a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card? When you're rich enough to afford a car that smells like Mr. Sharpton's gray Mercedes, you must have a Get-Out-of-Everything-Free card. — Stephen King