Top 17 Quotes About Chess Knights
#1. The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry Adams
#2. Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.
Savielly Tartakower
#3. Cooking up ideas and crafting good plot into a unique, natural, stirring taste is like cooking patiently in a charcoal stove.
Angelica Hopes
#4. Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.
Richard Reti
#5. There was a commotion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way screamed out: Now, Peter!
J.M. Barrie
#6. Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young.
Paul Weller
#7. And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be?
Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled a giant chess match, with our fellow human beings as the rooks, the knights, and the pawns. For this is the essence of sociopathic behavior, and desire.
Martha Stout
#8. May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ.
Billy Graham
#9. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
Courtney Love
#11. Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
Satish Kumar
#12. The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.
Anatoly Karpov
#13. Now, you just stand back and let me give you a lesson in how to be a passive aggressive Southern bitch."
Lila Bruce
#14. Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.
Christine Gregoire
#16. Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#17. Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!
Mikhail Tal
