Like A Chess Player Quotes

#1. Bridget did not budge, and her face was without expression. She sat, quietly defeated like a chess player who lost a career match in less than four moves.

Emmie White

#2. But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

Henry A. Kissinger

#5. She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

Kate Chopin

#6. Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

Will Ferrell

#7. LIFE HAS NO PLOT, WHY MUST FILMS OR FICTION?

Jim Jarmusch

#8. For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

Eduard Gufeld

#9. If you don't like it, say something.

Joyce Rachelle

#10. Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

Anatoly Karpov

#11. What I'm really interested in is freedom.

Eve Ensler

#12. The human mind's capacity to persuade itself of things it wants to believe is damn near limitless.

Greta Christina

#13. I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

Lance Henriksen

#14. The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck.

Bono

#15. Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.

Viswanathan Anand

#16. They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

Bobby Fischer

#17. Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

C.S. Lewis

#18. It's hard to run from checkmate, checkmate is like the dead... but it's possible to block it. Unfortunately dead you can't block it, but checkmate can be blocked, in such way so the player can't make it.

Deyth Banger

#19. The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

Tom Robbins

#20. Aikido is the Way and Principle of harmonizing Heaven, Earth and Man.

Morihei Ueshiba

#21. A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

Arthur Dean

#22. You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

Jennifer Niven

#23. Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#24. <> What kind of parties does she go to - cupcake parties? <> I think she meant beer. <> Oh, right.

Rainbow Rowell

#25. There's a thin line between perversion and love.

Ryohgo Narita

#26. Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

Seneca The Younger

#27. Life is like a chess. The most important is being a player not a figure. It doesn't matter you will win or lose.

Me

#28. Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#29. Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

Gautama Buddha