Pawn Quotes

100 Pawn quotes by 78 unique authors

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material. — Efim Geller
What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties:… — Samuel Reshevsky
I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just… — Jennifer Lynch
The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally… — Howard Staunton
The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly… — Howard Staunton
When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a… — Howard Staunton
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a… — James F. Byrnes
The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a… — Amber Benson
When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a… — Woody Allen
I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent. — Ray Charles
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things,… — Bob Dylan
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. — Bob Dylan
I'm a real pawn-shopper. — Jemaine Clement
I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk. — Leonard Cohen
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. — E E Cummings
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and… — Andrew Eldritch
The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in… — Matthew McConaughey
When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll… — Fiona Apple
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me. — Megan Whalen Turner
Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop? — Steven Wright
Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is… — Anne Rice
His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had… — Terry Goodkind
This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what… — Mercedes Lackey
And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight… — Ezra Pound
We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation,… — Gene Wolfe

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