Emanuel Lasker Quotes

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

Emanuel Lasker

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess
  • Torture
  • Mental

• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Real
  • History

• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Experience
  • Fight

• 'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Talent

• We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Change

• It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Fight
  • Islam
  • Crusade

• We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Free
  • Fight
  • Last

• If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fight

• The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Money
  • Fight

• 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Character
  • Party
  • Fight

• Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Balance
  • Fight
  • Self-Esteem

• New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Fight

• As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • World
  • Best

• There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Political
  • Action
  • Fight

• I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • World
  • Truth
  • Help

• If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Cancer is manageable. That if you deprive cancer of what it wants, by proper nutrition, avoiding toxins, avoiding chemicals and pharmaceuticals, sleeping well, eliminating stress, and balancing hormones with natural bioidentical hormones, you have a real shot at keeping your cancer at bay. In this way, you are managing your cancer.

  

  Suzanne Somers
  • Real
  • Sleep
  • Cancer

• Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

  

  Edwin A. Abbott
  • Happy
  • Learn
  • Ignorant

• By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Fight
  • Chess
  • Human Nature