#chess

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 ↗

— Fiona Apple

#conflict #fighting #trial #conflict

Then again, she had-through a bizarre combination of skill, dumb luck and incredible misfortune-managed to build up a file any Debunker would envy. ↗

— Stacia Kane

#bizarre

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. ↗

— Caroline Stevermer

#chocolate-pot #confusion #games #rules #confusion

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white. ↗

— Zenna Henderson

#games #racism #racism

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#chess-game #paradox

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates. ↗

— George Orwell

#chess #orwell #philosophy #mysticism

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. ↗

— Dave Barry

#end #game #pieces #possible #problem

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling. ↗

— Amber Benson

#always #call #chess #chess game #creative

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#end #label #leonard #passed #time

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#chess #dictionary #filming #going #i