I Feel As If I Were A Piece In A Quotes

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess,
when my opponent says of it:
That piece cannot be moved. - Soren Kierkegaard

To be good is noble but
to teach others how to be good is nobler
and less trouble. - Mark Twain

Civilization begins with order,
grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
- Will Durant

Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
Not thinking, yet not dreaming.
Ready for whatever may come.
When the opponent expands, I contract;
and when he contracts, I expand.
And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit,
"it" hits all by itself.
- Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)

Someone who doesn't care about what's distant
will soon encounter worries at hand. - Confucius

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...
I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen