"But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one."

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Source : Fred Reinfeld (2012). “The Immortal Games of Capablanca”, p.10, Courier Corporation

Fred Reinfeld

#Chess Quotes #Disappointing Quotes #Humour Quotes

“For those that say I endanger my child: it's more likely that you will fall while walking on the sidewalk than I will while skating with my daughter.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony Hawk from Dec 17, 2012
“I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book”
“Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”
“all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.”
“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.”
“I sometimes struggle with how to properly respond to Godâ€™s magnitude in a world bent on ignoring or merely tolerating Him.Â But know this: God will not be tolerated.Â He instructs us to worship and fear Him.”
“I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.”

Source : "Playing defense in the stock market right now doesn't make you an idiot" by Jesse Felder, www.businessinsider.com. April 09, 2015.

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