Polugaevsky Gambit Quotes & Sayings

Greed is a strange, strange sin.
All you want to do is acquire. Acquire money, acquire material, acquire time, acquire energy, acquire attention. The running mantra is "I want, I want, I want" but that quickly turns to "I need, I need, I need."
Suddenly there just isn't enough time for friends, for family, for anyone. Your goal is to acquire and to make sure what you acquire stays acquired. Your life depends on it. You don't see truth because the truth is shadowed by enormous homes, incredibly fast cars, in lavish spending. Your life no longer belongs to you, but you are blind to it all because those around you are seeking the same.
So you shuffle along at an impossible rate, and you pass the real world around you.
But what you'll come to realize, altogether too late, is that it's never enough.
It's simply never enough — Amelie Fisher

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same. — Isaac Newton

That was the difference between her and the idiots of the world. They were all trying to look smart and keep their social standing. Whereas Valentine didn't care about social standing, she cared about getting it right. Getting the truth. — Orson Scott Card

When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me. — Mason Cooley

If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable. — Michael Shannon

This felt real. This felt like the moons had aligned and the stars were shining in our favor and every breath was ours, every touch was right. This felt like eternity in a blink, like our lives unraveled and spun together, like the convergence of always and never and every step I've ever taken and every pain I've ever endured lead to that moment. — Ava Jae

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way. — Charlaine Harris

Customers rarely know what they want until they don't get it. — William Vaughn

Every experience is of value. — Oscar Wilde

Independent thinkers are usually deemed nuts until everyone realizes they were onto something all along — Janice Sims

I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minister was Sir Alec Douglas-Home, not because he was on the Right, but because he spent a year in office without, on his own admission, doing a damned thing. — George MacDonald Fraser

Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition. — Frank Herbert

We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don't want to tell us. — J. Lynn