Pawns Quotes

• 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 where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Vocabulary, Games, Doubt

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• 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 going on

  Anne Rice

  Attitude, Games, Giving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.945, Ballantine Books

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• Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Games, Soul, Defense

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• We are either kings or pawns of men

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Kings, Men

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• The Pawns are the soul of the game

  Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

  Games, Chess Game, Chess Pieces

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• A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess Pieces, Numbers, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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• Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Freedom, Military, Stupid

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• The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Chess, Casts, Isolated

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• Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

  Anatoly Karpov

  Soil, Foundation, Chess

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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

  Keys, Police, Criminals

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• Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the earthly way of suffering in darkness and permanent shortage of time. Like in chess, we encounter all kinds of traps, mistakes, settlements, sacrifices, kings, and queens, doubled pawns, and extraordinary moves while we are on the board ourselves.

  Pope John Paul II

  Queens, Kings, Mistake

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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

  Relationship, Leadership, Attitude

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.770, Open Road Media

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• Were born to be players, not pawns.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Life, Motivational, Moving

  Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.106, Penguin

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• 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 piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

  Howard Staunton

  Taken, Play, Enemy

  Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.21

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• Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

  Cecil Purdy

  Golf, Chess, Chess Pawns

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• On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

  Bob Dylan

  Games, Names, Politics

  Song: Only A Pawn In Their Game, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

  Bob Dylan

  Resentment, Grudge, Ceremony

  Song: Love Minus Zero, Album: Bringing All Back Home

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• He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Queens, Giving Up, Chess Game

  "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played : 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy". Book by Irving Chernev, Game 18 : The Isolated Pawn (p. 81), 1965.

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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. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kings, School, Winning

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• We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Past, Historical, Shapes

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• I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger

  Reuben Fine

  Chess, Fingers

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• You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast

  Anna Faris

  Waiting, Stuff, Exciting

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• It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Kings, Important, Roles

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

  Howard Staunton

  Two, Three, Pieces

  Howard Staunton (1873). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions”, p.34

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• Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Humanity, Drink

  XLI Poems (1925) "La Guerre," no. 2

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