Checkerboard Quotes

#1. Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. And it's ridiculous that anyone would praise a child for standing with arms spread out on a wooden cross, as if she were Jesus's dead sister wearing a checkerboard tablecloth.

Amy Tan

#3. From this vantage point in the summer, the countryside below is a dreaming checkerboard over which it seems that one could, with a running start, spread one's arms and fly.

Jenna Blum

#4. Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

Albert Camus

#5. There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.

Louise Hay

#6. Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.

William Morris Hunt

#7. But when my gaze falls on my bed, I freeze, no longer worried what Nolan thinks of the pink or DR.Hoo or my unicorn collection. Instead, I hold up my hand and point at the checkerboard. Someone has made the next move.

Paige McKenzie

#8. Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning.

Wayne Dyer

#9. Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

Elbert Hubbard

#10. I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

Chubby Checker

#11. In parting, I would remind you that Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!

Napoleon Hill

#12. No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.

Sri Chinmoy

#13. If absolute power corrupts absolutely,
does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

#14. We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.

Patch Adams

#15. Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

William Allingham

#16. As we begin this debate, I am confident that we will hear the supporters of this bill argue in the name of Ronald Reagan that this research is consistent with his long-held views about the sanctity of life.

Mike Pence

#17. I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.

Bob Hope

#18. That we never know what's in the heart of people when we judge them. Actions that sometimes seem mean aren't. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

James F. Byrnes

#20. The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

Simone Weil

#21. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

G.K. Chesterton

#22. (Productive Workers + Innovative Products = Industry Leadership, no?)

Max DePree

#23. He had every gift but the gift of years

Checkerboard Press

#24. My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

Mark Leyner

#25. Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

Harlan Stone

#26. Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and it's intentionally out of people's reach.

Erik Naggum

#27. If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Milton Friedman

#28. Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.

Louise Hay