#piece

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#more #much #peace #piece #precious

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#america #country #did #invasion #last

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#funny #little #pieces #portable #thought

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#best #cast #generally #grew #original

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#closing #critical #doing #gap #how

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#brain #comfortable #i #knew #make

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#enemy #may #pawn #piece #play

When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#attack #attacked #attacking #between #checked

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student. ↗

— James Galway

#i #i think #important #most #pieces

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling. ↗

— David Strathairn

#builds #chord #compelling #each #hear