"Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest."

-- Savielly Tartakower

#Games Quotes #Chess Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another”
“Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.”
“The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.”
“Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.”
“I don't believe in welfare.”
“Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2013). “Pacific Edge: Three Californias”, p.95, Macmillan
“So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.”
“To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.”

You may also like:

Alexander Alekhine
Chess Player
Aron Nimzowitsch
Chess master
Emanuel Lasker
Chess Player
Jose Raul Capablanca
Chess Player
Richard Reti
Chess Player
Rudolf Spielmann
Chess Player
Siegbert Tarrasch
Chess Player
Wilhelm Steinitz
Chess Player
Efim Bogoljubov