#del

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#force #get #his #his way #i

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#bottom line #capacity #deliver #deny #destruction

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

#attained #fidelity #purpose #through #true

My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls...one of those. ↗

— Hailee Steinfeld

#camera #commercial #dolls #first #first time

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#children #driving #how #learn #life

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#after #am #chambers #darkest #delve

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#guide #like #map #opening #road

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#also #because #case #country #history

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. ↗

— Helen Keller

#delight #flower #fragrance #garden #i