Knights Quotes - Page 4

• Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fighting, Brave, Darkness

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• How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Fate, Optimism, Psychology

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• First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.

  Mikhail Tal

  Queens, Bishops, Pawns

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• Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him, thereby depending on that being who is still himself - yet who in this sense creates Him. Here we have a vision which has never been professed outside of a few errant knights of mysticism. To profess this essential bipolarity of the divine essence is not to confuse creator and created, creature and creation. It is to experience the irrevocable solidarity between the Fravarti and its Soul, in the battle they undertake for each other`s sake.

  Henry Corbin

  Sadness, Essence, Ideas

  Henry Corbin (1998). “The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy”, p.223, North Atlantic Books

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• Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Coward

  Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.76, 谷月社

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• Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

  Alvin Toffler

  Kings, Cutting, Long

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• I have fought my fight, I have lived my life,
  I have drunk my share of wine;
  From Trier to Coln there was never a knight
  Led a merrier life than mine.

  Charles Kingsley

  Life, Wine, Fighting

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.287

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• Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Player, Chess, Pieces

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

  Elton John

  Couple, Dying, Records

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

  Chris Matthews

  Kings, Hero, Kids

  "Searching for the human JFK". Interview with Thomas Fitzgerald, www.philly.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Josh Duhamel is somebody you can't take your eyes off of, and same with T.R. Knight. It's a car that you want to run up to 100 mph, right away.

  Bridget Carpenter

  Running, Eye, Mph

  Source: collider.com

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• And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Drawing, Undisciplined, Courses

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• Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.

  Garry Trudeau

  Cartoon, Keith, Vectors

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• It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

  Courtney Love

  Stupid, Moving, Games

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• If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

  Angela Elwell Hunt

  Sweet, Revenge, Taste

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• It's depend of the communication, I think it's very important to let the director make his own vision of the character, not making a studio movie. Look the Dark Knight it's totally the vision of Nolan.

  Xavier Gens

  Communication, Character, Dark

  "‘Hitman’ Director Sets His Sights on Daredevil". Marvel Movies! Interview, screenrant.com. April 30, 2009.

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• Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist
  Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me
  It's less than likely,
  Move back,
  Let I breathe Jedi knight,
  The more space I get the better I write,
  (Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write,
  I need the space to say whatever I like.

  Jay-Z

  Buddhist, Moving, Writing

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• I was a knight," Andrea said. "I'm not just going to start shooting every dickhead who mouths off to me." "Just making sure." "Besides, if I shot him, I'd do it so nobody could trace it back to me. I'd shoot him somewhere remote, his head would explode like a melon, and they would never find his body. He would just vanish.

  Ilona Andrews

  Shooting, Mouths, Body

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.73, Penguin

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• War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Moving, Thinking

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• I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'

  RZA

  Kings, People, Pieces

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.37, Penguin

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• Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Riders, Horsemen

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• Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

  Noel Coward

  Stars, Play, Dying

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• I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity.

  Frances Trollope

  Believe, Race, Law

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• Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dog, Growing Up, Cat

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• I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Hero, Years, Forever

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.356, Macmillan

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