Pawns Quotes - Page 4

• The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Queens, Games

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• See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become A base adult'ress, whose false births do fill The earth with monsters, monsters that do roam And rage about, and make a trade to kill: Now glutt'ny paunches, and avarice a pawn; Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.

  Francis Quarles

  Pride, Envy, Sloth

  Francis Quarles, Joseph Swain, Edmund Evans (1861). “Quarles' Emblems”, p.12

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• The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

  William Ewart Napier

  Moving, Eight, Dollars

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• Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.

  Al Gore

  Wine, Beer, Gun

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• The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

  "Matthew McConaughey: from himbo to highbrow". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2012.

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• The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven.

  Nick Yee

  God, Weed, Atheist

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• Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.

  Ashot Nadanian

  Kings, Pieces, Opponents

  Interview at S'pore Chess News, August 23, 2010.

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• Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.

  Brian Weiss

  Drama, Arrows, Treatment

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• You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on down tried to circumvent what was supposed to be – which ultimately was the destruction of the Atlantean pantheon. There was no changing that prophecy. But the way you suffered was completely unnecessary. Had your parents embraced their true destiny, you would have been saved years of torment. Fate will not be denied. We can sculpt it, but in the end we’re all pawns to our final destinies. Good, bad, or indifferent. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fate, Destiny, Years

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• I'm a real pawn-shopper.

  Jemaine Clement

  Real, Shoppers

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.

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• Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis.

  Gorilla Zoe

  School, Games, Age

  Source: uproxx.com

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• We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Father, Law, Pancakes

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• The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Real, Games, Political

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)

  Mercedes Lackey

  Thinking, Hands, Magic

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• I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

  Ray Charles

  Clothes, Pay, Explanation

  Song: Hard Times

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• Thank God [Donald Trump] said I was a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as 'animal politicus.' At least I am a human person. As to whether I am a pawn, well, maybe, I don't know. I'll leave that up to your judgment and that of the people.

  Pope Francis

  Animal, People, Thank God

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Jobs, Children, Believe

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• We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.

  Gene Wolfe

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  Gene Wolfe (2011). “Home Fires”, p.137, Macmillan

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• [Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story of a very peculiar man, another genius who's troubled and lived an interesting life. I had great fun making that.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Fun, Sacrifice, Men

  Source: nerdist.com

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• I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Movement, Venezuela

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

  Samuel Boden

  Giving Up, Games, Chess

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• And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

  Ezra Pound

  Moving, Cutting, Knights

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• [Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

  David Lloyd George

  Sorry, Sea, America

  "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

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• Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.

  Ali Khamenei

  Vanity, Hands, America

  "The 25 Issues that Shape American Politics: Debates, Differences, and Divisions". Book by Michael Kryzanek and Ann K. Karreth, 2017.

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• We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.

  Wayne Dyer

  Real, Drinking, Sleep

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