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Tag Name "Pawns" (33)

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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
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Pawns are really queens in disguise.
Lisa Mangum
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Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains
Rick Kennedy
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Paul Watzlawick
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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
Richard Wright
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Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns
Siegbert Tarrasch
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Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.
Stephan A. Hoeller
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I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.
Wesley Clark
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He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.
Yana Toboso
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In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
Bob Woodward
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In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
Charles Buxton
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Were born to be players, not pawns.
Daniel H. Pink
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The Pawns are the soul of the game
Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
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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
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Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.
Jay Carney
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We are either kings or pawns of men
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
Orhan Pamuk
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Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.
Patricia Mauceri
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Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more
Pope Francis
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In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.
Siegbert Tarrasch
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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.
Wayne Dyer
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In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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The placing of the centre pawns determines the topography of a game of chess.
Alexander Kotov
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