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How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one’s brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! – upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre.

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.

Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can’t see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight’s dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.

Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.

Josh Duhamel is somebody you can’t take your eyes off of, and same with T.R. Knight. It’s a car that you want to run up to 100 mph, right away.

They’re all weak, all women. They’re stupid compared to men. They shouldn’t play chess, you know. They’re like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn’t a woman player in the world I can’t give knight-odds to and still beat.

And sometimes through the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two.

The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe ‘The A-Team’ and ‘Airwolf’ And I loved ‘Knight Rider’ and then later ‘Baywatch.’

Son, my name isn’t Knight to you, it’s coach Knight or it’s Mr. Knight. I don’t call people by their last name and neither should you.

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul’s immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer.

When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.

The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.

I’ve always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

it pleaseth me when I see through the meadowsThe tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have IWhen I see o’er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed.And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk withtheir goods;And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host ofarmed men.

Old Testament, is really one of the most wickedest books you’ll ever come across. God is an insecure, rage-filled hybrid of Bobby Knight and Suge Knight. He’s got these anger issues that you can’t believe. He’s like John McCain if McCain could fart hail. He’s pro-slavery, he’s pro-polygamy, he’s homophobic, he’ll kill you for masturbating.

‘The Dark Knight’ is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear – they are merely masks… Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

And, of course, I began drawing so much – wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires – rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

There isn’t a woman player in the world I can’t give knight-odds to and still beat.

The Kassideans or Assideans…arose either during the Captivity or soon after the restoration…The Essenians were, however, undoubtedly connected with the Temple (of Solomon), as their origin is derived by the learned Scalier, with every appearance of truth, from the Kassideans, a fraternity of Jewish devotees, who, in the language of Laurie, had associated together as ‘Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem.’…From the Essenians Pythagoras derived much, if not all, of the knowledge and the ceremonies with which he clothed the esoteric school of his philosophy.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.