Sikilinca Quotes & Sayings

What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art. — Ben Kingsley

The only excuse from a man who abuses you are the ones we give him. — Selena Haskins

Age has a way of sobering us. Our experiences, our disappointments, and our failures have a way of shrinking our expectations. Sometimes they wound us in a way that steals our faith and bankrupts our dreams. — Ross Parsley

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. — Friedrich Schiller

A home without books is a body without soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is natural to suppose that global warming would act as a useful counterweight to the Earth's tendency to plunge back into glacial conditions. However, as Kolbert has pointed out, when you are confronted with a fluctuating and unpredictable climate, 'the last thing you'd want to do is conduct a vast unsupervised experiment on it'. It has even been suggested, with more plausibility than would at first seem evident, that an ice age might actually be induced by a rise in temperatures. The idea is that a slight warming would enhance evaporation rates and increase cloud cover, leading in the higher latitudes to more persistent accumulations of snow. In fact, global warming could plausibly, if paradoxically, lead to powerful localized cooling in North America and northern Europe. — Bill Bryson

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become? — Arthur Conan Doyle

Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his purse, or his politics, or his social intercourse. Such beings maintain themselves best when they insert themselves in an alien organism; if they do not succeed they become vexed, irritated, and eat themselves up. — Friedrich Nietzsche

encounter a multitude of other agents. My keyboard, the words unfolding on the Microsoft Word interface, the books piled beside my computer, the flashing cursor, — Anonymous

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing
you are stretching ... You are going outside your immediate grasp. — Yanni

In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year. — Baron Hill

I'll teach you how to do it later. I just had to see you experience it," he said softly in Matt's ear. "I haven't been able to get you out of my mind since I first saw you. — Dan Skinner

In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life — Walter P. Webb