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

• 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

• 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

• I really believe that with all of what Lynyrd Skynyrd has been through, we can survive just about anything. We've had a load of ups and downs, but we're still here.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Believe
  • Survive
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Maybe I couldn’t help everyone survive, but I could, at least, save this one life.

  

  Tiana Warner
  • Life
  • Help
  • Survive

• I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.

  

  Carol Berg
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.

  

  William Lashner
  • World
  • Different
  • Wish

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

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Survive
  • Hypocrisy
  • Chessboard