Pawns Quotes
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Pawns Quotes & Sayings
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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
The Pawns are the soul of the game
— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
Were born to be players, not pawns.
— Daniel H. Pink
When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
— George R R Martin
Attempts to nail down "who we really are" most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arguments fueled by competing agendas
— Maggie Nelson
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
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
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
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
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
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