Quotessence
Home / Topics / Pawns Quotes

Pawns Quotes

Browse 183 quotes about Pawns.

Related topics

ChessGamesChess PawnsKingsPiecesWorldQueensIfsMovingMenKnowsPlayPlayerShouldGivingPeopleThinkingBoardsChess GameEndgameOpeningPositionChildrenDoeHumansPawn ShopsSacrificeShopsSituation

Pawns Quotes

“What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]”

PeopleInfluenceAwarenessPerspectiveKingsSelf AwarenessSeparationQueensCharmManipulationEngineersPersuasionRobotsFlatteryCunningPuppetsOthersPawnsStatusMass InfluencePuppeteersGrey Matter Tailor
Book:Rise of the Morningstar
Create image

“The closer we get—the more I let you in…the more dangerous this gets. We’re just pawns in this game, and I wasn’t playing before. I was just a piece to move about the board, but I am playing now. Don’t you get it? You’re what everyone wants! But I’m not going to let them win.”

LoveRomanceGamesProtectionPawnsForbidden LoveThe FallPost ApocFighting The SystemIn Between SeasonsThe Fall SeriesFeeling Protective
Book:In Between Seasons
Create image

“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.”

MayTwoValuesThreeFivePiecesMinorsFractionsPawns
Book: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
Create image

“Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.”

DifferentPurposePartyPiecesPlayerColorEightSuperiorsDistinctionOfficersMinorsPawnsDifferent Colors
Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess
Create image

“The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.”

MenMovingLeftStepsTakenHe ManCaptureSquaresFilesAnother ManPawns
Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess
Create image

“The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.”

TwoEndsGamesSituationEqualAverageValuableQueensPawns
Book: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
Create image

“It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game who know that the rules are ‘real’ only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them.”

KnowsRealRealityGamesDifferencesPlayerAcceptedMaking A DifferencePawns
Book:The art of change: strategic therapy and hypnotherapy without trance
Create image

“See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become A base adult'ress, whose false births do fill The earth with monsters, monsters that do roam And rage about, and make a trade to kill: Now glutt'ny paunches, and avarice a pawn; Pale envy pines, pride swells, and sloth begins to yawn.”

WorldEarthPrideBirthLateAdultsTradeIllEnvyRageMonstersPregnantPaleWombAvariceSlothPawnsChaste
Book:Quarles' Emblems
Create image

“Let me tell you something, the end game, Paul, for Congress and this president - and I don't know how many members of Congress even realize the game that they are either being used in or a pawn in. But believe me, they'll take the universal health care coverage over what skin they do have in it. They're going to come out - this system is going to come out the other side dictorial [sic] - it is going to come out a fascist state.”

KnowsBelieveEndsStatesCareUsedGamesSidesPresidentRealizingKnow HowMembersSkinsUniversalLet MeCongressHealth CareBelieve In MeCoverageFascistsPawnsUniversal Health Care
Author:Glenn Beck
Create image

“Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.”

PeopleWorldHandsTodayAmericaUsedDesirePresidentFireSecurityDemandThreatSettingSettingsVanityArroganceRegimesSlogansExaggeratedZionistPawnsChantingAmerican PresidentPeace And Security
Author:Ali Khamenei
Create image

“Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.”

NeedsLittlesDoePlayActionCoursesGamesNaturalDestinyWorryHarmonyInfiniteFingersInterfereOccasionalAdjustmentPawns
Author:Jose Saramago
Create image

“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.”

PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingShouldHas BeensMovingGamesChanceToo MuchFateHeardSacrificeBuildingReadyTerribleDiseasePicksWeaknessLuckActiveChessChances ArePawnsConfidence And Strength
Book:Face
Create image

“Jacobitism involved much more than a debate about the merits of a particular dynasty. Men and women were well aware that its success was almost certain to involved them in civil war. And the more politically educated knew that the Stuart Pretender was a pawn in a worldwide struggle for commercial and imperial primacy between Britain and France.”

MenWellsWarCertainStruggleParticularInvolvedMen And WomenDebateEducatedFranceMeritCivil WarBritainPawnsBritish HistoryDynastyPrimacyPretender
Book:Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
Create image

“We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.”

WorldRealSleepLevelsEnvironmentMagicAwarenessHigherElementsEatingFunctionDrinkingPossessionCaringAllowingSoarOur EnvironmentHigher LevelPawns
Author:Wayne Dyer
Create image

“It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join--though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.”

IfsKnowsWorldLifeShouldMindMightCoursesGamesFunWishHugeChessQueensPawnsBeing Played
Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Create image

“... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.”

MenHas BeensTwoBlackCommunityWhiteFeminismPaidFeministAfrican AmericanOppositionActivistSexismMisogynyBlack WomenPredictablePawnsAfrican American WomenBrandedAll BlackMan HaterBlack Feminist
Author:Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Create image

“Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure.”

TryingLooksMovingWinningBlackWhiteKingsCostActivityApproachFoundationStrategyStructureChessSuperiorsOpeningThanksPawnsEndgameStiflingGambit
Author:Neil McDonald
Create image

“I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.”

WantI CanCountryWholeHandsFightingSidesCan DoDealsSituationClassCitizensArgumentVotePropertyKillingVariousIsraelTreatedOppressionMy TimePalestinianBoth SidesOngoingPawnsSecond Class Citizens
Author:Michael Moore
Create image

“And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.”

WorldShowsRealityRememberGamesGivenProcessSituationAcceptingDoubtPerspectivePhotographyPhotographerRelateIntimateFragmentsPawnsIllusoryUnreachable
Author:Antoine D'Agata
Create image

“War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.”

ThinkingMayLittlesLongTwoWarSometimesBodyMovingGamesDifferencesNumbersCompanyKnownPositionDependsPleaseStrongerChessDivisionRelativeTroopsEquipmentKnightsPawns
Author:Leo Tolstoy
Create image