Pawns Quotes: top 67 famous quotes about Pawns

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It was fun, although we felt like pawns, or prawns, in the maelstrom. — Julia Child

You always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line. — Poppy Z. Brite

We are either kings or pawns of men — Napoleon Bonaparte

But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

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

Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy. — Anthony Santasiere

Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains — Rick Kennedy

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. — James MacGregor Burns

Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash. — Jonathan Lethem

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

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

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

Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns — Siegbert Tarrasch

And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they were all isolated. — Hans Kmoch

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

The Pawns are the soul of the game — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

Were born to be players, not pawns. — Daniel H. Pink

Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight. — Jay Carney

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him. — George R R Martin

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

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

First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns. — Mikhail Tal

Attempts to nail down "who we really are" most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arguments fueled by competing agendas — Maggie Nelson

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

Let the pawns make their moves. — Ernest Dempsey

Immortality, power, dominance, all are illusions. Don't you see? We are simply pawns in a game beyond our understanding.' Pug — Raymond E. Feist

Here's to the charlatans, the pretenders, the pawns and the knights. For without them, this play would have no kings. — Atticus

In the bigger scheme of things, we are two pawns... waiting for life to make its move.
#Fatalist — Saru Singhal

Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered. — Bryant McGill

Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain. — Patricia Mauceri

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

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

The thing about pawns," Emily said, almost to herself, "is if they reach the other end of the board, they become a queen. — Lauren Smith

I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4. — Anatoly Karpov

Self-doubt and Depression are the real killers. The other are just pawns. — Deyth Banger

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

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns. — Wilhelm Steinitz

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

We are pawns in a game whose forces we largely fail to comprehend. — Dan Ariely

The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess. — Alexander Kotov

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. — Henry Kissinger

Pawns were always underestimated - until they marched across the board and changed into queens. — Natalie Herzer

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

A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people. — Beth Revis

Aren't we all pawns in the hands of time, the greatest player of them all? — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

If we are pawns in the middle of this heavenly battle to hurt the Lord, we need the Scriptures for a weapon. — Raven H. Price

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

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

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position — Anatoly Karpov

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

I look upon you as so many pawns, as inanimate pawns. — Anton Chekhov

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

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

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. — Daisaku Ikeda

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

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

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

Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too ... So small, almost insignificant, and yet
they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting? — Lavie Tidhar

My world we humans we're just pawns on an immortal chessboard. — Karen Marie Moning

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

Pawns are really queens in disguise. — Lisa Mangum

Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments. — David Bronstein

Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king. — Darnell Lamont Walker