"A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn."

--

Arthur Dean

#Giving Up Quotes #Player Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.”

Source : Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.20, Random House
“If you are late for work in Mumbai and reach the station just as the train is leaving the platform, don't despair. You can run up to the packed compartments and find many hands unfolding like petals to pull you on board. And while you will probably have to hang on to the door frame with your fingertips, you are still grateful for the empathy of your fellow passengers, already packed tighter than cattle, their shirts drenched with sweat in the badly ventilated compartment. They know that your boss might yell at you or cut your pay if you miss this train.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self? What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r! Aye: frailty, thy name-- belike--is Force.”
“I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.”
“Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.”

Source : 'Man' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)
“I think woman is phenomenal, magnificent. I mean that sincerely.”

Source : "Is this it?". August 15, 2008.
“Out of too much learning become mad.”
“True ownership of anything requires time ...”

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