Checkmated Quotes

#1. What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing on your neck the other day was just a fluke. I guess not--looks like you get off on picking up a few souvenirs when you...get off. ~Crash

Jordan Castillo Price

#2. Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

Karl Kraus

#3. Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

Dave Barry

#4. Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

Samuel P. Huntington

#5. Time, the ultimate grandmaster that could never be checkmated. There was no way out of its distended belly.

Rohinton Mistry

#6. Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

Bill Gaede

#7. With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear ... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known.

David Douglas Duncan

#8. I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing it on certain body areas and I might come faster.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.

Arthur W. Pink

#10. I want to be an icon.

Wiz Khalifa

#11. Only unfulfilled love can be romantic

Javier Bardem

#12. Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am ... ' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#13. Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

Stephanie Perkins

#14. Heather leaned into Georgie and sighed. "Sometimes I feel like her daughter. And sometimes I feel like the dog with the least ribbons." Heather

Rainbow Rowell

#15. We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

Gloria Steinem

#16. We cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

Tim LaHaye

#17. Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... the future is roses! Roses!

Thomas Dolby

#18. We're all related. We're all a family.

Jack Johnson

#19. While I'm sure this is going to be a fascinating story,' I interrupted. 'I don't care. I'm having a major parental crisis that sort of outshines your little tantrum, and frankly it seems like my dad agrees with you. I have a party to get ready for, can we do this later?

Kody Keplinger