Pawns Quotes

141 Pawns quotes by 106 unique authors

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
We are either kings or pawns of men — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. — Daisaku Ikeda
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
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. — P.J. O'Rourke
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. — Elwyn Brooks White
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
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. — Henry A. Kissinger
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
You of all beings know how fate works. What happened to you as a human happened because everyone from your parents on down tried to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone… — Brian Weiss
The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political… — Orhan Pamuk
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
My world we humans we’re just pawns on an immortal chessboard. — Karen Marie Moning
They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they… — Richard Wright
He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went… — Terry Pratchett
What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the… — Alison Croggon
I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn. Sounds like I'm… — Larissa Ione

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