Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Quotes

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

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• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Ultimate

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• I'm blind without my glasses.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Blind
  • Without
  • Glasses

• Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Economy
  • Race

• I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Death
  • Know

• Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.

  

  T-Pain
  • Think
  • Should
  • I Think

• I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Fear

• I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Fool

• No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

• The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• There was a saying of the peasants-the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city.

  

  Andre Norton
  • True
  • City
  • Moon

• I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Men
  • Live
  • Country

• These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Fear

• In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

  

  Pau Gasol
  • Death
  • Hood

• The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

  

  Billy Wilder
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Long
  • Wish

• I wish Andy all the very best for his future, which I am certain will be a successful one.

  

  David Cameron
  • Future
  • Wish

• An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mind
  • Purpose

• It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

  

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
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