"No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience."

-- William Gurnall

#Inspirational Life Quotes #World Quotes #Accusing Quotes

“Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.”
“All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.”

Source : Siegbert Tarrasch (1935). “The Game of Chess”, p.279, Courier Corporation
“You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed.”
“Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.”
“Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So if you don't win [an award], usually one of your friends does. So it's kind of a cool thing. I think it's the only genre of music to have that camaraderie.”
“I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.”
“But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.”
“The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed.”

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