Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Charles Dudley Warner

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• When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Disappear

• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Bad
  • Baseball
  • Now

• The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Faith
  • Like
  • Weapons

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• Mister Cee's a legend, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Man
  • Legend
  • Mister

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Like

• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • You
  • Surrender

• After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Heart
  • Prayer

• Real war was the thousands of Chinese refugees dying of cholera in the sealed stockades at Pootung, and the bloody heads of Communist soldiers mounted on pikes along the Bund. In a real war no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners. In a real war there were no enemies.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Real
  • War
  • Dying

• Psychiatrists - the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • War

• The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Red

• And how am I to face the oddsOf man’s bedevilment and God’s?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World
  • God

• However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Organization

• Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at the same time allured and terrified by the glare of publicity....You could do anything you like with them, if you would treat them (even the big ones) not as wolves and tigers, but as domestic animals by nature, even though they have been badly brought up and not trained as you would wish.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Politicians
  • Businessmen
  • Delusions

• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Play

• Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Heart
  • War
  • Passion

• Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • Compassion

• There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

  

  Charles Dudley Warner
  • Chess