Pawns Quotes - Page 2

• The pawn is the soul of chess.

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Soul, Chess

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• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Divorce, Comedy

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

  Louie Anderson

  Hurt, Sorry, Responsibility

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• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  E. B. White

  Moving, Knights, Organization

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.200, Cornell University Press

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• In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

  Bob Woodward

  Military, War, Stupid

  Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein (2013). “The Final Days”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure

  Michael Stean

  Games, Chess Game, Chess Pieces

  Michael Stean (2013). “Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

  Howard Staunton

  Queens, Average, Games

  Howard Staunton (1873). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.34

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• The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

  Howard Staunton

  Moving, Taken, Men

  Howard Staunton (1848). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess”, p.7

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• You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  People, Feelings, World

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.243, Faber & Faber

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• Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

  Howard Staunton

  Party, Player, Eight

  Howard Staunton (1848). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess”, p.2

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• It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

  James F. Byrnes

  Military, Struggle, People

  James F. Byrnes (1947). “Speaking Frankl.y”

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• He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Queens, Giving Up, Chess Game

  "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played : 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy". Book by Irving Chernev, Game 18 : The Isolated Pawn (p. 81), 1965.

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• It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game who know that the rules are ‘real’ only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Real, Player, Games

  Giorgio Nardone, Paul Watzlawick (1993). “The art of change: strategic therapy and hypnotherapy without trance”, Jossey-Bass

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• When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kings, School, Winning

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• Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Player, Energy, Chess

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• I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

  Leonard Cohen

  Drunk, Junk, Bottles

  Song: That Don't Make It Junk, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.

  Jan Hein Donner

  Sacrifice, Drawing, Purpose

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• I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger

  Reuben Fine

  Chess, Fingers

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• A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

  Arthur Dean

  Giving Up, Player, Opposites

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• Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.

  Tim Lebbon

  Moving, Fate, Sacrifice

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated

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• You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast

  Anna Faris

  Waiting, Stuff, Exciting

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• A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

  Howard Staunton

  Two, Three, Pieces

  Howard Staunton (1873). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.34

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• Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Humanity, Drink

  XLI Poems (1925) "La Guerre," no. 2

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• A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Chess, Fortune, Fellows

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• Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more

  Pope Francis

  Children, Home, Men

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.129, SPCK

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