Clinching Quotes

#1. Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination.

Fred Reinfeld

#2. How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says
' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

Agatha Christie

#3. Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation ... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

Simon Hughes

#4. From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

Matsuo Basho

#5. The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

Adam Schiff

#6. Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.

Jim Cooper

#7. In every circumstance, though the nation has liberated already and we have worked for the nation, or we have not, providing the foundation for critical thinking to the people is still important.

Khem Veasna

#8. Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?

Toni Morrison

#9. The conclusion is that both emotional poverty and an aversion to company are not symptoms of autism but consequences of autism, its harsh lockdown on self-expression and society's near-pristine ignorance about what's happening inside autistic heads.

Naoki Higashida

#10. The Holy Spirit has his own personality .He therefore moves in at will when we least expect it, and sometimes when we are least deserving of it.

R.T. Kendall

#11. I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

John Lennon

#12. When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#13. Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

Edward Abbey

#14. One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Wallace Stevens

#15. Rain fell more steadily now. Grey and unrelenting. Nobody seemed to notice. Rain on the puddles. Rain on the high brickwork. Rain on the slate roofs. Rain on the rain itself.

Colum McCann

#16. It's hard, really, to make any physical movement that hasn't been done in another film. If you grab someone's hand, it doesn't mean you're referencing other films with grabbing hands.

Simon Pegg

#17. Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

C. Wright Mills