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Quotes About Draws

Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.
~ Bobby Fischer
...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Your cousin draws blade as another man draws breath.
~ Tanith Lee
Dread occurs frequently in response to high-probability negative events; its magnitude increases as the dreaded event draws nearer. Because
~ Brene Brown
Convergence," Tool said. "Power ever draws other power.
~ Steven Erikson
Peter didn't answer. He pulled his legs up to his chest, wrapped his arms around them, and put his chin on his knees. Ever the contradiction, Tanngnost thought. One moment a cold-hearted killer, the next a sentimental boy, always the eternal optimist despite a lifetime of tragedy. Of course, that's his glamour. The very thing that draws the children to him, makes them love him despite so many contradictions. (The Child Thief)
~ Brom
Misfortune draws people to religion and mysticism
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
~ Gilles Deleuze
Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you'll see eternity.
~ Frederick Lenz
persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet?
~ James Patterson
The eternal feminine draws us on high.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The one who pays attention to the dreams, draws on them, and lives them out is blessed, even as the one who dreams is also dreamt. We each take our turn at living out the dream. Like some ageless wave, Scripture flows through us.
~ Lawrence Kushner
4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important to realize that 4chan wasn't some overnight success, and there was never 'hockey stick' - like growth.
~ Christopher Poole
I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.
~ Michael Franti
The Spirit makes Christ present to us and draws us toward his likeness. It is as we thus behold the "glory of the Lord" that we are constantly "transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit" (2 Corinthians 3:18).
~ Dallas Willard
The youngest of three children and orphaned as a young boy, Smoke Jensen is considered one of the fastest draws in the West. His quest to tame the lawless West has become the stuff of legend. Smoke owns the Sugarloaf Ranch in Colorado. Married to Sally Jensen, father to Denise ("Denny") and Louis
~ William W. Johnstone
Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?
~ Lionel Shriver
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
~ Philip Roth
I have heard that voice many a time when asleep and, what is strange, I understood more or less an order or an appeal in an unearthly tongue: day draws near another one do what you can.
~ Czes?aw Mi?osz
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
~ Philip Roth
Over his back, he draws Mourn-It-All and Rubio's blade.
~ Dan Abnett
Hope waits but does not sit. It strains with eager anticipation to see what may be coming on the horizon. Hope does not pacify; it does not make us docile and mediocre. Instead, it draws us to greater risk and perseverance
~ Dan Allender
It's good to win. Losses aren't good, and draws are O.K.
~ Hikaru Nakamura