David Bronstein Quotes
In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.
David Bronstein
Quotes to Explore
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Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
W. S. Merwin
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There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his full force had arrived.
S. C. Gwynne
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When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
Alex Grey
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Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
Cherrie Moraga
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My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
Mathew Brady
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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
Abraham Lincoln
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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
Plato
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The storm passed by my shop, and I had to escape from the shower of stones, tear gas and rubber bullets to save my life.
Abu Abbas
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Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.
Hannah Arendt
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The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.
Blaise Pascal
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
Marcel Proust
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Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
Simone de Beauvoir
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If one could only discover the unwritten bases of black magic and apply formulae to them, we would find that they were merely another form of science... perhaps less advance, perhaps more.
Charles Beaumont
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I did a bit of running away when my mam passed away. I didn't go back to work; I started drinking quite a lot, and I know how damaging that can be.
Ronan Keating
Boyzone
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Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
Arthur Brisbane
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Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.
Ashok Gangadean
