Pawn Quotes: top 86 famous quotes about Pawn

Pawn Quotes & Sayings

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Check your moves well, because it can
cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves! — Deyth Banger

You are a pawn and a tool," he said. "But you're the right one for the job. For that, I am sorry. — Jamie Wyman

I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros. — Prince

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

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game — Nigel Short

When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods. — Thomm Quackenbush

little do these people know I am just a pawn" spat Kell — V.E Schwab

If I had wanted to be a pawn in a game, I would have taken up chess... — Virginia Alison

Never despise a pawn. If it succeeds in crossing the board safely, it becomes a queen - the most powerful piece in the game. — Ellen Renner

Because you are just a pawn. And a pawn can't help but get played. — Laura Thalassa

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

To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn. — Neal Shusterman

While the Witch plays her pawn, the King sacrifices Himself, and to all appearances, the game is over. But the Lion has one last move ... — Sarah Arthur

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

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune. — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

I'm a real pawn-shopper. — Jemaine Clement

I will not be pawn in their games — Suzanne Collins

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material. — Efim Geller

But a pawn could become a queen if she reached the end and came back again. — Kim Harrison

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient — Aron Nimzowitsch

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn. — Richard Reti

Words should be the pledges of work, and, like pawn-tickets, have their market price. — Baltasar Gracian

And now the game is over, and a single pawn stands on that scorched board and its face is human after all. — Peter Watts

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent. — Ray Charles

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me. — Megan Whalen Turner

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop? — Steven Wright

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn. — Siegbert Tarrasch

I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn. — Randy Harrison

I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign. — Norman Schwarzkopf

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

In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn. — David Bronstein

You are not a pawn in the chessgame of life, you are the mover of the pieces. — White Eagle

She was my mirror image, slightly distorted, flipped, older, larger, more able to coexist with a pack of men. I'd be their pawn. She was their queen. — Aspen Matis

The pawn is the soul of chess. — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

They sometimes forgot what happened if you let a pawn get all the way up the board. — Terry Pratchett

Humble Only: The Pawn — Patrick Lencioni

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard. — Savielly Tartakower

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game. — Jose Raul Capablanca

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard — Aron Nimzowitsch

Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn — William Shakespeare

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while. — Woody Allen

Let the wilds temper you, and if you weather it, in time the prodigal will return, a viper to his father's bosom. Pawn takes king. — Mark Lawrence

You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop. — Jeff Foxworthy

What do women want? To be treated like a queen;
but by a king, not a pawn. — James Robison

It's probably polite to pretend you don't see people coming out of pawnshops, anyhow. — Dashiell Hammett

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf — Cecil Purdy

Beware of becoming a pawn in your own game. — Marty Rubin

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge. — Bob Dylan

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A knight ending is really a pawn ending. — Mikhail Botvinnik

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess. — Adrian Rogers

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on — Anne Rice

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king. — Siegbert Tarrasch

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess — Siegbert Tarrasch

Even a pawn can take down a queen. — Chanda Hahn

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

There was nothing that could prepare a person for discovering they were a pawn in a war between mythical beings. Unless you know ... you were Frodo. — Samantha Young

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. — Bob Dylan

In this world, you're either playing the game or you're a pawn on the board. — Courtney Milan

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

The whole of life was a game. But if it was a game, then were you the player or were you the pawn? — Terry Pratchett

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. — Jose Raul Capablanca

I'm the Pawn of chess game, whose aim is not to protect the King only but to become the Conqueror. — Samar Sudha

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen. — Robert Charles Wilson

A pawn only needs to move five spaces to become the queen" - from Bhendi Bazaar — Vish Dhamija

He had learned well: made a board of the village, a pawn of the master. — Anthony Marra

I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger — Reuben Fine

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Everyone is king, when there's no one left to pawn — Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

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

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss. — Jennifer Lawrence

You're not a pawn, Sofia. You're the queen. — Bella Forrest

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. — Edmund Burke

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending! — Bent Larsen

Now I have the pawn and the compensation. — Roman Dzindzichashvili

Always put the rook behind the pawn ... Except when it is incorrect to do so. — Siegbert Tarrasch

I won't be your pawn," I growled.
Puck's lips formed a thin, knowing grin. "In the end, you'll still serve the Fae. — Jamie Wyman

Make no mistake, my girl," he finally breathes. "You are playing the game as someone's pawn. — Victoria Aveyard

Don't be like everyone else and pawn your dreams for pennies, because they'll never give you what it's truly worth. — James Jean-Pierre

I may be a pawn, but I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and I can move like a queen. Don't piss me off. — Kim Harrison

Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen. — Sandeep Sharma

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively. — Mark Dvoretsky

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move. — Yana Toboso

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

What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world. — Soren Kierkegaard