Gregor Piatigorsky Quotes

#1. A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

Gregor Piatigorsky

#2. We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Terry Wogan

#4. I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.

Kathryn Harrison

#5. Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven.

Gregor Piatigorsky

#6. The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

Charles Baudelaire

#7. I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take] flight. When [I] make the decision, the backache goes away.

George Soros

#8. What happens to you does not matter; what you become through those experiences is all that is significant. This is the true meaning of life." -- author unknown,

Erin Arvedlund

#9. Love might be a risk, but I'm all about risk-management.

J.A. Huss

#10. They were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts.

Douglas Adams

#11. Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

#12. Politicians, you know Harry Reid hates you. We get it. But when somebody from "The New York Times" or "The Washington Post" is saying this stuff, that's different, that's offensive, that's wrong.

Greg Gutfeld

#13. You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.

S.E. Hinton

#14. My lip healed. So did my head. My pride stayed bruised, though, and my confidence was fractured. Those injuries, the ones that didn't show, I would have to live with.

Robert McCammon

#15. Originally self-published, in different form, as an ebook in 2011 .

Andy Weir

#16. So we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it.

J.I. Packer

#17. John O'Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was the cause of the Soviet collapse.

Roger Scruton