Quotes About The Game Of Checkers

#1. The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

Abraham Kaplan

#2. I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. I think it is important to learn from one's mistakes.

Rain

#3. As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.

Jason Calacanis

#4. Now, I bought us a movie to watch, the one that has sparkly vampires in it.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#5. Kmart appreciates and supports exclusive brands.

Thalia

#6. For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.

Al Gore

#7. Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it ... that's when you get into trouble

Sarah Dessen

#8. The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

Bob Costas

#9. ..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

#10. Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#11. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

Courtney Love

#12. Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

Wahida Clark

#13. We are sitting in a garden in a French town.

Paulo Coelho

#14. That's what lordship is - Christ reigning as supreme authority over our life. Making Jesus Lord of our life is not something passive. It's not a state of being, it's a state of doing. Those whom Jesus recognizes as His own are those who do the will of His Father in heaven.

Keith Green

#15. The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

Home Run Baker

#16. Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

Kathryn Stockett

#17. One of my greatest pleasures is a good cut of meat, and the bloodier the better. Just show them the flame, I always tell my cook. Just show it to them.

Joe Abercrombie

#18. Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

Richard Leakey

#19. Dammit - the overgrown ape. Just when I'd started to manipulate Echo back into my corner, her loser boyfriend swooped in and draped an arm around her shoulder.

Katie McGarry

#20. Don't get too hung up on working with any one person, because it's like a game of checkers where dudes are hopping over one another all the time, shouting, "King me, motherfucker!" It's checkers, yo. But with a lot of money at stake.

Ice-T

#21. Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

Wayne Gretzky