Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.
I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.
There's the blazing Russian Caucasus, with an ongoing war all against all, which is not to be neglected.
My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.
We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.
It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
My goal is to show people that conservatives are funny. In fact, we're the rebels: we're 'Animal House.'
But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture
I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.
In politics, almost everywhere we see what looks like the externalisation of psychic wounds or deficits.
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'
We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me
I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.
Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
I would jump at the chance to work with the inordinately-talented J.J. Abrams on a new 'Star Trek' film.
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.
The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.