Portisch Lajos Quotes & Sayings

Today is much more an age of greed — Richard Rogers

To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters ... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence. — Lajos Portisch

The Communist Manifesto as political rhetoric has an almost biblical force. — Eric Hobsbawm

We know no fear. It was cut from our souls at birth. We can feel it only as an absence, as an empty shadow cast by the light of annihilation. In the face of a future of atrocity I stand mute, numb to the only feeling that would make me human. But I remember what fear was: its cold pulse in my veins; its echo in my ears. I remember fear, and remember that I was once human. I look towards what must come to pass and I wish that I could meet it as my ancestors did, with fear. The future deserves that, it deserves fear. — John French

I'm a big fan of the DEA. — Jeff Sessions

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected
in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. — Thomas Mann

There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights. — Mohammed Morsi

Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame. — Lajos Portisch

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live! — Emile Zola