Top 15 Quotes About Chessmen
#1. There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.
A.S. Byatt
#2. Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. The pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
Agnes Repplier
#4. It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation ... all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.
Theodore Dreiser
#5. Was it home, the mercury-lit street? Was he returning like the elephant to his graveyard, to lie down and soon become ivory in whose bulk slept, latent, exquisite shapes of chessmen, backscratchers, hollow open-work Chinese spheres nested one inside the other?
Thomas Pynchon
#6. Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?
Keri Hulme
#7. Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.
V.C. Andrews
#9. So, let me get this straight," she said. "You're not afraid to scale Mount McKinley or swim in shark-infested waters, but you're scared of getting another scolding from your mother?
Tracy Brogan
#10. Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.
Michael Pollan
#11. Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
Nikolaus Lenau
#12. I don't want to be in my 'interview zone' mode. I've been doing a lot of interviews and I'm very self-aware of how I'm coming across.
Erika M. Anderson
#13. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
Francis Of Assisi
#14. Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development
Wangari Maathai
#15. Oh, you're a picky sort, huh?" He laughed. "That takes balls, being choosy at a time like this.
Domashita Romero