Pawns Quotes

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

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.

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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.

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

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.