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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.
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This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
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Chess is a matter of vanity.
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Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.
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Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
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If you're bumming out, you're not gonna get to the top, so as long as we're up here we might as well make a point of grooving. (Quoting Scott Fischer)
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Robert Fischer is a law unto himself
