King Quotes

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When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings.… — Garry Kasparov
The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the… — Pal Benko
In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors. — Aron Nimzowitsch
If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there… — Alexander Kotov
Despite the obvious qualifications of all of Jesse's other sons, God appoints the unlikely David to become the king of Israel. — David Platt
As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God… — Tony Evans
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The… — Edmund Spenser
I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say. — Jack Handey
Breath is the king of mind. — B.K.S. Iyengar
You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your… — Stephen Sondheim
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on… — Henry Thomas Buckle
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. — Sallust
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for… — Giambattista Bodoni
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any… — Herman Melville
If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think… — Unknown Author
A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending! — Bent Larsen
A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the… — Gregor Piatigorsky
Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death. — William Shakespeare
I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters. — Minimaks
Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real. — John Lennon
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes. — Ken Salazar
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but… — Gustave Flaubert
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left. — Unknown Author
Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one currency,… — David Starkey
Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy,… — Simon Schama

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