Draws Quotes

2062 Draws quotes by 1515 unique authors

A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move. — Savielly Tartakower
Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it… — Savielly Tartakower
Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest. — Savielly Tartakower
He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it politely, but firmly.… — Lubomir Kavalek
Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you… — Pal Benko
Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative… — David Platt
There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. — Sterling W Sill
Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush… — Mark Nepo
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. — Joseph Addison
Chesterfield 1, Chester 1. Another score draw in the local derby — Des Lynam
Tim Henman has the all-time Betty Crocker draw. We're talking Easy Bake Oven. — Brad Gilbert
It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of… — Kenny Smith
If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an… — Lewis Tappan
Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings. — Rainer Maria Rilke
If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life. — Unknown Author
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of… — Nick Carter
Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next. — Bobby Fischer
She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose… — Raymond Chandler
Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6...Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [...] The most remarkable feature… — Unknown Author
Love is the spiritual magnetism that draws men together, for the working of miracles. — Wilferd Peterson
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my… — Berkeley Breathed
Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United States will be recognized… — Mary Livermore
Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage… — Antonio Guterres
The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations… — Javier Perez de Cuellar
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent… — Javier Perez de Cuellar

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