#versa

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#cannot #him #his #king #legally

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#cannot #captured #his #king #man

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#everyone #lived #observe #one time #say

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#communism #conformity #death #making #organization

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#dante #england #france #glory #his

I just love the whole idea of conversational prints. ↗

— Anna Sui

#i #idea #just #love #prints

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#any #celebration #given #love #order

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#been #death #designed #ever #evil

If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#conversation #lost #who #yelling #you

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#commonplace #creations #living #nature #nothing