Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Nigel Short

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• But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Job
  • Meaning

• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Me
  • Stop

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
  • Other

• For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Night
  • Food

• The channels of human mental development... are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Single

• When annual elections end, there slavery begins.

  

  John Adams
  • Slavery

• If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

  

  Mary McCormack

• If I had been thrown out into a radio tour when I was 18, or 17, and given a record deal, I don't think... it would have been a total nightmare.

  

  Maren Morris

• However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

  

  Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Serious

• But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

  

  Cliff Stearns
  • Law

• No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

  

  Freddy Rodriguez
  • Good
  • Different

• When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Movie
  • Soul

• Inspiration: A miasma originating in the head that pollutes the body and irritates good sense.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Inspiration
  • Sense
  • Pollutes

• Ὁ δίκαιος ἀταρακτότατος, ὁ δ᾽ ἄδικος πλείστης ταραχῆς γέμων.

  

  Epicurus

• The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a problem of immoral leadership. We have heard a lot about public morality and moral leadership in the last year. But very little of it focuses on the immoral conduct we're complaining about today.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Moral

• We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Yourself

• Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Good
  • May
  • Advice

• Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness. My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I'd already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I'd give it a shot.

  

  Bernd Heinrich
  • Home
  • America
  • Learned

• Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions of Jews on railroad cars and transport them hundreds, even thousands, of miles to concentration camps. Camps built specifically to house them, where they would be fed, clothed, even tattooed so they could be inventoried...just to kill them.

  

  Edgar Steele
  • War
  • Kill
  • Consider

• Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  

  Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Game
  • Slavery
  • Reflection

• I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.

  

  Linda Lingle
  • People
  • Education
  • Path

• Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

  

  Nigel Short
  • Kill
  • Chess
  • Ruthless