“Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.” SometimesGamesWinningPiecesSacrificeKingsChessQueensKnightsChess Pieces Author:John Rhys-Davies
“The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.” WayWarWholeBeautifulFatherGamesIndividualSimpleStudyPiecesKingsEternalComplexesNobleQueensBoardsSavagesFiniteElegantKnightsBishopsPiousIvoryHaughtyIndividual Power Book:The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave
“Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.” IfsHumansLongHuman BeingsCuttingKingsCorporateBureaucracyKnights Author:Alvin Toffler
“I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'” PeopleAsksPiecesPositionKingsAsk MeKnights Book:The Tao of Wu Source: The Tao of Wu
“How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.” IfsHas BeensMightKidsPoliticalLeaderReaderKingsHeroSickHospitalsBiographiesMight Have BeenKnightsArthurPolitical LeadersJocksKing Arthur Author:Chris Matthews