Keres Quotes

#1. Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

Irving Chernev

#2. For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

Mikhail Tal

#3. The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

Janet Morris

#4. It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all. I think humanity wishes it were the case since it's humanity that writes the various scriptures.

Frederick Lenz

#5. No." I tilted her chin up. "I expect you to live a damn good life. I expect you to listen to me when I tell you there has never been anyone but you. No one. Only you, always you, forever you. And I'm sorry, but I won't take back what I did." - Nixon

Rachel Van Dyken

#6. However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

Paul Keres

#7. She curled those fingers around him and gave a long, lazy pull. "No underwear?"
"Didn't want to slow you down.

Danielle Monsch

#8. An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

Paul Keres

#9. Night coaxed out the stars, my jailers.

Roshani Chokshi

#10. Unnaturally high radiation levels increases aggression in people

Steven Magee

#11. Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

Jeannette Walls

#12. In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

Paul Keres

#13. Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod, but still unique.

Neil Gaiman

#14. I was unlucky, like my country.

Paul Keres

#15. A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining a lost position. In the endgame ... an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

Paul Keres

#16. And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended.

Josephus

#17. Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

Paul Keres

#18. Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from behind us, "why not let the children touch the paintings?

Ben Lerner

#19. My work and my family are very important to me.

Stephen Hawking

#20. Chess is a test of wills.

Paul Keres

#21. Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment
I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven,
Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator,
And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

Ptolemy