Pawn Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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