Boards Quotes - Page 32

• Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

  Elbert Hubbard

  Moving, Men, Player

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• On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been asked about them so often that in the end she had started a blacklist of banned words to which everyone could refer. Every time someone thought of a new one, she unflinchingly wrote it down... Rose read through the list, and turned back to her letter. These are the words I learned to spell in Mummy's art class today, she wrote, and sighed a little as she began the tedious job of copying from the board.

  Hilary McKay

  Mother, Art, Jobs

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• Say what you will about zombies and their hygeine issues,at least they kill you fast.College acceptance boards? They like to draw out the torment as long as possible.

  Kiersten White

  Acceptance, College, Issues

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• A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, "Get a boat!

  Daniel Quinn

  Sight, Sea, Gathering

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.126, Broadway Books

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• A man's character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn't do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.

  Ralph Moody

  Lying, Character, Men

  Ralph Moody (1991). “Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers”, p.41, U of Nebraska Press

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• When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Joy, Sorrow

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Girl, Daughter, Children

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.204, Random House

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• Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Moving, Mean, Winning

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.270, Allison & Busby

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• I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board

  Ilona Andrews

  Eyelashes, Dumb

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.105, Penguin

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• She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box. The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities, her mild eyes rolling up and down, wondering to which of these deadly conditions, some of them unpronounceable, she owed her present happiness.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Brain, Suggestions

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving, Heart, Watches

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• mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!

  Derek Landy

  Letting Go, Sacrifice, Games

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• Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Talking, Long

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our bellies. The sailors heaved up the anchor, square and chalky with barnacles, and loosened the sails. Then they took their seats at the oars that fringed the boat like eyelashes, waiting for the count. The drums began to beat, and the oars lifted and fell, taking us to Troy.

  Madeline Miller

  Farewell, Squares, Eyelashes

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.179, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like softly falling snow. "I've got to go back, haven't I?" "That is up to you." "I've got a choice?" "Oh yes." Dumbledore smiled at him. "We are in King's Cross, you say? I think that if you decided not to go back, you would be able to…let's say…board a train." "And where would it take me?" "On," said Dumbledore simply.

  J. K. Rowling

  Kings, Fall, Thinking

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• Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life’s buried here, Heap earth upon it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Heart, White

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.5, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning or whether you live in Malabar Hill or New York or Jogeshwari; whether you’re from Bombay or Mumbai or New York. All they know is that you’re trying to get to the city of gold, and that’s enough. Come on board, they say. We’ll adjust.

  Suketu Mehta

  Christian, Morning, New York

  "Bombay can take it" by Salil Tripathi, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2006.

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• One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.

  Stephen King

  Bystanders, Blood, Brain

  "Stephen King: why the US must introduce limited gun controls" by Stephen King, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2013.

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• He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

  Yana Toboso

  Moving, Pawns, Normal

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• People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

  Betty White

  People, Old Friends, Age

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• Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

  Kate Atkinson

  Past, Rubies, Nonsense

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.331, Macmillan

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• Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Games, Chess Game, Chess Pieces

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice. "'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Hair, Hands, People

  Diana Gabaldon (1997). “Drums of Autumn”

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• I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, House, Littles

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• Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract .. every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Feelings

  "The Secret". Book by Rhonda Byrne, November 26, 2006.

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