Pawns Quotes
141 quotes by 110 authors
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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
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I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one…
— Steve Carell
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and…
— Louie Anderson
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Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn
— William Shakespeare
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Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:…
— G. H. Hardy
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Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one…
— Carlos Castaneda
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
— Edmund Burke
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In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
— Bob Woodward
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A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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The Pawns are the soul of the game
— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
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The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening,…
— Michael Stean
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He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger
— Reuben Fine
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When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack…
— Garry Kasparov
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Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense
— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
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Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
— Cecil Purdy
Who Wrote These Pawns Quotes
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