#ss

My mother dressed me always very conservatively. ↗

— Selma Blair

#dressed #me #mother #very

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#board #chess #climate #could #country

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated. ↗

— Selma Blair

#being #bombshell #haven #i #lead

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#changes #cradle #easy #every #every time

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#difficult #imagine #life #me #my life

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. ↗

— Tony Blair

#children #contemplate #entire #entire lives #first

But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. ↗

— Tony Blair

#am #believes #beset #between #britain

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real. ↗

— Tony Blair

#capability #chemical #destruction #hussein #mass

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#charity #disciples #excitement #few #less

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. ↗

— Tony Blair

#essentially #i #i always #people #person