#som

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#beauty #begins #both #cannot #chess

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#because #brought #condemned #cursed #fell

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#each #i #nearly #pretty #sings

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#explanation #form #get #i #may

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#definitely #designed #dreaming #dreams #family

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#come #father #killed #mrs #oh

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult. ↗

— Gary Cole

#bad #difficult #i #just #out

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music. ↗

— Gary Cole

#had #i #i think #love #music

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things. ↗

— Gary Cole

#certain things #get #identified #point #some

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it. ↗

— Juan Cole

#did #flat #flat tax #income #individual