Emanuel Lasker Quotes

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long.

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• Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Boy
  • New
  • Year

• The good ideas will survive.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Survive

• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Survive

• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poet
  • Survive
  • Can

• Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Way
  • Child
  • Survive

• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Never
  • Promise
  • Promises

• We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Man
  • Space
  • Survive

• Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child's sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Child
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Different
  • Man
  • Choice

• You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Movie

• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hope

• That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Depression
  • Survive
  • Insidious

• ...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Stop
  • Stupid
  • Dying

• And then, if you survive that, they love you again.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Survive
  • Love You

• Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Survive
  • Must
  • Adapt

• Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Judging
  • Hypocrisy
  • Sinner

• What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Conservative

• Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Horrible
  • Hypocrisy
  • Hopefulness

• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Universe

• People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Different
  • Changes

• Love, and do what you like.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • You
  • Like

• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Convenience

• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Fun
  • Never
  • Segregation

• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Survive
  • Hypocrisy
  • Chessboard