Em Short Handed

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or handed:

“Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people.”
—Nigel Short (b. 1965)

“Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call “history” by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World history ... only comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)