"The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success."

-- Anatoly Karpov

#Success Quotes #Character Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.”
“How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!”
“Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.”
“If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.”
“I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.”
“The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along inâ€”as if heâ€™d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.27, Granta Books
“The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every thing that can oppose or attack him within the sphere of mortality-who will press toward his object while death is impending over him-who would retain his purpose unshaken amidst the ruins of the world.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 239, 1895.
“The young dont know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.”

Source : Seumas MacManus (1950). “Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain”

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