Emanuel Lasker Quotes

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

Emanuel Lasker

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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

• 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

• In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition, a specimen of fossil man must be discovered in intelligence, attested by scientific knowledge, and interpreted by evolutionary experience. These rigorous prerequisites have undoubtedly caused many still-births in human palaeontology and are partly responsible for the high infant mortality of discoveries of geologically ancient man.

  

  Earnest Hooton
  • Experience
  • Environment
  • Survive

• You'd be surprised to know how many heartaches, how many bitter disappointments, how many disasters that seem final when they come, we learn to survive and in time even to forget.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Learn
  • Survive
  • Surprised

• I don’t want to make the same mistakes I’ve made before. I want to be free. I want to be with you. We will be together. I believe I will have less to live for, if I am not with you.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Together
  • Mistakes
  • I Believe

• In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand themselves, because within himself he has not only the character he is grasping, but also its opposite. Duality is necessary for observation and comprehension.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Men
  • Character

• I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Interesting
  • Fall
  • Moving

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

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Survive
  • Hypocrisy
  • Chessboard