Najdorf Quotes

#1. As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibility of self-criticism. I am one of those unlucky skeptics who never overlook the dark side of even the happiest experience.

Savielly Tartakower

#2. You are quite beautiful, child. Perhaps you should beware of Perrin. I never see him but in the company of beautiful girls. Faile gave Perrin a flat, considering look, then tried to gloss it over quickly.

Robert Jordan

#3. Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

Miguel Najdorf

#4. But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

Beau Bridges

#5. I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

C.S. Lewis

#6. What softened your heart?" I asked softly.
"Good music and a friend."
I felt my eyes burn a little and turned from him, blinking quickly to lap up the sting of tears. "Music has incredible power"
"So does friendship," he supplied frankly.

Amy Harmon

#7. It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.

Jack Kornfield

#8. When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

Finley Peter Dunne

#9. Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.

William Prynne

#10. I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

Miguel Najdorf

#11. I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.

Jim Webb

#12. No one expects all impediments to be miraculously whisked away. In insisting that others view our lives as ample and precious, we are not demanding that they be made perfect ... If it is both possible and pleasant for me and my kind to enter, the world will become a livelier place. You'll see.

Nancy Mairs

#13. Don't we all have moments we'd rather forget, and thoughts we wished never came to us? We say things too awful to remember.

Randy Susan Meyers

#14. But you see when I play a game of Bobby, there is no style. Bobby played perfectly. And perfection has no style.

Miguel Najdorf

#15. The other limitation on our discussion is that for the most part I examine the principles of justice that would regulate a well-ordered society. Everyone is presumed to act justly and to do his part in upholding just institutions.

John Rawls

#16. Fuck, that's good. That's habit-formin'.

Garth Ennis

#17. Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

Miguel Najdorf

#18. Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

Miguel Najdorf

#19. Our supper is plain but we are very wonderful.

Kenneth Patchen