Pawn Quotes

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. (E. E. Cummings)
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. View quote
Howard Staunton
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. View quote
Howard Staunton
[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America. View quote
David Lloyd George
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. View quote
Edmund Burke
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. View quote
G. H. Hardy
When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight And he'll win the whole thing ‘fore he enters the ring There's no body to batter when your mind is your might So when you go solo you hold your own hand And remember that depth is the greatest of heights And if you know where you stand then you know where to land And if you fall it won't matter cuz you'll know that you're right. View quote
Fiona Apple
To capture the pawn, threaten the queen. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
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. View quote
Glenn Beck
Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly. View quote
Ashot Nadanian
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess. (Siegbert Tarrasch)
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. View quote
Andrew Eldritch
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. View quote
Anna Faris
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. View quote
Howard Staunton
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West. View quote
James F. Byrnes
I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people. View quote
Louie Anderson
I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn. View quote
Randy Harrison
I have a weakness for any piece in excess of my opponent's numbers - from pawn to queen. View quote
Tigran Petrosian
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. View quote
Anne Rice
Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop? View quote
Steven Wright
We will never be a pawn in someone else's game. We will always be Afghanistan. (Ahmad Shah Massoud)
He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day When the New York Times said God is dead And the war's begun. View quote
Elton John
I never realised the passing hours of evening showers. A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams, I'm strangled by your haunted social scene. Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen. It's four o'clock in the morning, Damn it listen to me good. I'm sleeping with myself tonight, Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive. View quote
Elton John
I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
Let me be clear: the upcoming Majles elections in Iran is nothing but a sham, and the Iranian people – whether they are compelled by a variety of reasons to take part, or whether they are able to withstand enormous pressure and boycott the elections – know full well that, no matter who gets into the next Majles, they are unlikely to truly represent their will, desire and vision for Iran. Consequently, the next Majles will continue to remain a mere pawn in the hands of the "Supreme Leader” and his cohorts. View quote
Reza Pahlavi