Sparring Partner Quotes

#1. A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.

Aleksis Kivi

#2. When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.

Boris Gelfand

#3. Life is a sparring partner;
adversity is its gloves.
Life is an opponent;
adversity is its blows.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

Raymond Chandler

#5. Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

Lucretia Mott

#6. If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.

Roy Bennett

#7. The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use ... and slowly I got into playing.

Richard Clayderman

#8. You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Golda Meir

#9. I will knock out Vernon Forrest in two rounds whether I have a cigarette or not. I know a lot of people want to see me fight more rounds. So, if HBO wants, they can pick two sparring partners for me to fight after I knock out Forrest. That way, the audience can see me fight 12 rounds.

Ricardo Mayorga

#10. I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Diane Setterfield

#12. I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#13. We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

William Westmoreland

#14. One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

Gary Hume

#15. I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me.

Muhammad Ali

#16. Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Thomas Hood

#17. I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

Soseki Natsume

#18. Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

Larry Holmes

#19. I had the greatest sparring partners, I had the greatest sparring team. And these guys they wrapped me up a lot. I never got the chance to get off on them.

Michael Spinks

#20. The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise a hand again.

Rachel Caine

#21. I would have to create a system with common rules that would be acceptable to everyone. That meant as close as possible to no rules at all.

Tim Berners-Lee

#22. There is this, about being the sparring partner of the best swordsman in Caribastos. I always lost. But if ever I meet the third best swordsman in Caribastos, he's going to be in very deep trouble.

Lois McMaster Bujold