Chess Story Quotes

#1. When you push against the boundaries of experience into the twilight of the unknown, the Lord will strengthen you. The beauty of your eternal soul will begin to unfold.

Richard G. Scott

#2. It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

Emanuel Lasker

#5. In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians.

Karl Marx

#6. Despite what you've heard, ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance leads to poverty, illness, poor jobs and broken relationships.

Alan R. Zimmerman

#7. Nothing was done to us - we were simply placed in a complete void, and everyone knows that nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void.

Stefan Zweig

#8. Who says there have been no female prophet on earth, what about your mother.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

Chanakya

#10. What happened to your tan.

James Patterson

#11. It's not only the myths surrounding chess. Chess itself is a myth, you know? A game of hierarchy, of war. It's a story that people have been using to explain complex concepts for eons. Mathematics, yes. Geometry. Business. Philosophy. Even love.

Skye Warren

#12. If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Rex Stout

#13. Diabetes is passed that way
over and down, like a knight in chess.

Maile Meloy

#14. I'm a Cali girl through and through.

Drew Barrymore