Chess Quote by George Orwell Download Open image ““It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.”” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess
“It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.” — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
“I said I wouldn’t push you, and I meant it. But one day, Chess, you’re going to feel safe enough to let go. And… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of them.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“I don't know how to play chess, but to me, life is like a game of chess.” — Thierry Guetta Copy Share Image
“Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.” — Wahida Clark Copy Share Image
“...why did you stick with me?” “That’s easy, Alice,” he said. His amber eyes melted into hers. “It’s the first rule of chess: always… — J.M. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.” — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
“Her curiosity would be the end of them both. “Chess. They are playing chess,” he said, his voice oddly husky. “Chess? I think you… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
“They seemed to shine together at the center of things. They made things theirs. A certain bench in the park, near the chess players,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, it requires a significant number of Chess moves to make the universe align.” — James Qualls Copy Share Image
“The game of chess is like the game of life. You move, then wait patiently until the other person moves....mgc” — Michael Gray Calvert Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image