Arthur Dean Quotes

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

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• I only get ill when I give up drugs...

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Drugs
  • Give Up

• The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Struggle

• The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Rights

• Never give up your power to another person.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Power
  • Person

• Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

  

  Alice James
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Up
  • Team
  • Games

• There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Break

• An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Life
  • Up
  • Artist

• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Age
  • Birthday
  • Remembers

• What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Errors
  • Truths
  • Give Up

• Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Love
  • Give Up

• Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Give Up
  • Oppression
  • Some People

• One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Learn
  • Give Up
  • Momentary

• He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Lives

• But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Goal
  • Creature
  • Chess Player

• Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Talent
  • Hollywood
  • Answer

• Addiction - When you can give up something any time, as long as it's next Tuesday.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Addiction
  • Give Up
  • Tuesday

• Music is the first thing I didn't give up.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy
  • Give Up
  • Music Is
  • First Thing

• I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.

  

  Adolf Anderssen
  • Mistake
  • Games
  • Chess Player

• For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.

  

  Will Self
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Fire

• For missing a 10 minute swim - I think it was out of order really.

  

  Gareth Hock
  • Missing
  • Really
  • Swim

• I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

  

  Jules Shear
  • Want
  • Play
  • Put Up

• A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

  

  Arthur Dean
  • Give Up
  • Diplomat
  • Chess Player