Chessboard Quotes
39 Chessboard quotes by 34 unique authors
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Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity
— Pope Francis
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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.
— Wendell Phillips
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Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a…
— Mattie Stepanek
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Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang…
— Diablo Cody
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I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had…
— Raymond Chandler
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On the chessboard of his godforsaken existence, the pieces were lined up, the play preordained. Man, so many times in life you didn't get to…
— J R Ward
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I guess it's hard, being apart all the time." "It really is. If Lucas were still here, everything would be different." Vic's smile turned smug.…
— Claudia Gray
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Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid…
— Christopher Moore
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The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the…
— Catherine Fisher
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The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake
— Rohinton Mistry
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My world we humans we’re just pawns on an immortal chessboard.
— Karen Marie Moning
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It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own…
— Karel Capek
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Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis…
— Marcus du Sautoy
Who Wrote These Chessboard Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 39 Chessboard Quotes, led by these top contributors: