Osterland Sports 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

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion. — Michael Faraday

Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself. — George Carlin

What one cannot, another can. — William Davenant

The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them. — William James

The same goes for our dealings with sheep. Sheep raising in Japan has failed precisely because we've viewed sheep merely as a source of wool and meat. The daily-life level is missing from our thinking. We minimize the time factor to maximize the results. It's like that with everything. In other words, we don't have our feet on solid ground. — Haruki Murakami

I'm always a competitor. I'm not there just to have a good time. I want to play well and perform well. — Matt Kuchar

Love is my only wealth and you are my love. — Debasish Mridha

We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices ... Government has to make those choices for people. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does — Dan Millman

I should hit him harder. With a truck, — Rhiannon Frater

February was sobbing and blustering its lachrymose way into March, when she received a letter from the Dean. — Dorothy L. Sayers

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants. — Michael Shurtleff

From deep within the solar system a large planetoid was headed Earth's way. It was on a collision course and it was unbelievably massive - possibly the size of Mars itself. Had there been humans on Earth then they would have spotted this intruder millions of miles out. They would have watched it grow in size night after night. Soon it would have filled the sky. There would have been no escape, no reprieve. Instantly they would have been staring doom in its face as - at an oblique angle - the planetoid squashed the young Earth. — Jay Barbree

I pray for John the Baptist and Baby Jesus to come around for a playdate with Dora and Boots. — Emma Donoghue