“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
“I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.” ThinkingMenSometimesValuesPiecesSacrificeTalentEssentialsObjectivesPreservesGreat MenEpicGrandeur Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.” WantArtMatterPiecesSacrificeFoodBuildingCookingMeatCulinaryStomachThrowingGrilling Author:James Beard
“The goal of human freedom is not in freedom itself, nor it is in man, but in God. By giving man freedom, God has yielded to man a piece of His Divine authority, but with the intention that man himself would voluntarily bring it as a sacrifice to God, a most perfect offering.” MenGivingHumansGoalPerfectPiecesSacrificeDivineAuthorityIntentionOfferingHuman FreedomSacrifice To God Author:Theophan the Recluse
“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'” IfsThinkingMenGivingShouldYoungPiecesSacrificeAdviceChiefsYoung ManGoodsWorldlyLife HappinessPlaces To Live Author:C. S. Lewis
“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.” LoveMayPlayGamesPiecesPlayerSacrificeOffersWeaponsMathematicsMathChessMathematicalAdsMathematicianFinestPawnsMath And ScienceChess PlayersMath EducationMathematics By MathematiciansEuclidMath LoveMath And LoveGambit Book:A Mathematician's Apology Source: A Mathematician's Apology