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Quotes About Pawn

Hugh's flat was on the ground floor of a red-brick pile near Baker Street. To reach the door one clattered along a black-and-white stone passage, feeling like the last pawn left at a game of chess.
~ Anthony Powell
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.
~ Ayn Rand
Aronian made the interesting point that if I could force a passed a-pawn I might have winning chances
~ Jonathan Rowson
No one. I'm a pawn in this game. You're always first to say how unimportant I am. But at least I will be the pawn who tells the truth.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I'm no pawn," said Glinda. "I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness. Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that. But you do have some choice.
~ Gregory Maguire
I'm no pawn, said Glinda. I take all the credit in the world for my own foolishness. good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that. But you do have some choice.
~ Gregory Maguire
Bravo can laugh and feel somewhat superior because they know they're being used. Of course they do, manipulation is their air and element, for what is a soldier's job but to be the pawn of higher?
~ Ben Fountain
I am but a pawn on the Imperial chessboard.
~ Brian Herbert
The whole of life was a game. But if it was a game, then were you the player or were you the pawn?
~ Terry Pratchett
Thats right my lovely bride to be. In language you might understand, your pawn has been captured and you my queen will also be in danger if you think to gain-way me again.
~ Kat Martin
it stayed for a twelvemonth or more; when I gave him an emetic, and he heaved it up in small tacks, d'ye see. No possible way for him to digest that jack-knife, and fully incorporate it into his general bodily system. Yes, Captain Boomer, if you are quick enough about it, and have a mind to pawn one arm for the
~ Herman Melville
Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?
~ Steven Wright
It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you're a pawn in the system.
~ Evangeline Lilly
Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
~ Byron Allen
And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn.
~ Neal Shusterman
There are now skin products supposedly created with 24-karat gold extract. I guess if financial times got really tough, you could always pawn your own head.
~ Gina Barreca
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.
~ Howard Staunton
No more sending your clothes over to forensics to be dry-cleaned, no more running up kebab tabs on stakeouts and no more pawning items from the Evidence Room until payday.
~ Christopher Fowler
'Silicon Valley' is a great show. It might be the best comedy on television. And if the Academy feels I have stood out to the point of deserving an award, I won't pawn it.
~ T. J. Miller
Humble Only: The Pawn
~ Patrick Lencioni
Once the game is over,' " he says, " 'the king and the pawn go back in the same box.' " "In life and death we are equal.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn really do go back in the same box. In death they are indeed equal. But in life, we are not. In life we are a product of more than our decisions. We are the consequence of how we cope with those decisions, and too often that is fear and guilt. Don't let it be fear and guilt.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
~ Italian proverb
I'm screwed, Eric repeats, and shakes his head. I have to go. Take care of her, okay? He gives Delia to me as if she were a jewel to be smuggled, a prayer to be whispered between heretics. A pawn. Eric is halfway across the parking lot by the time I answer. I always do, I say.
~ Jodi Picoult