"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications."

-- Alexander Alekhine

#Opportunity Quotes #Trying Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.”
“I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.”
“At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.”
“Being an artist doesnâ€™t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But itâ€™s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.”
“Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?â€ Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. â€œIt was like being owned.â€ Some women like that.â€ Not me.â€ Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.â€ I doubt it. I couldnâ€™t breathe with him kissing me.â€ One day you may kiss a man you canâ€™t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.â€ Right, and one day my prince might come.â€ I doubt heâ€™ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.”
“At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.”
“Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.”

Source : "The Unpractised Heart" by Leonard Alfred George Strong, (p. 147), 1942.
“Somebody once observed--and the observation did him credit, whoever he was--that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping.”

Source : Albert Richard Smith (1848). “The struggles and adventures of Christopher Tadpole at home and abroad”, p.183

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