"Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess."

-- William Ewart Napier

#Long Quotes #Chess Quotes #Faults Quotes

“A car's not the right place for showing off to a girlâ€”the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.”
“That's one of the things I find really bad, is when people not only do injuries to others, but then lie about the others to justify it. It's not bad enough just being bad to someone, but then lying about it.”
“Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.”
“If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Ã‡amlÄ±ca of Istanbul.”
“There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.”
“In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.”

Source : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.63
“Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.”
“In the resurrection there is already wrapped up a judging-process, at least for believers: the raising act in their case, together with the attending change, plainly involves a pronouncement of vindication. The resurrection does more than prepare its object for undergoing the judgement; it sets in motion and to a certain extent anticipates the issue of judgement for the Christian. And it were not incorrect to offset this by saying that the judgement places the seal on what the believer has received in the resurrection.”

Source : "Pauline Eschatology".

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