The easiest way to sum up the relationship between the drivers and NASCAR is that we are pawns on a chessboard. We don't make the big moves. We're just sacrificial lambs so to speak. They have their way of explaining to you very quickly that you can be replaced very, very easily in this sport no matter how popular you are.
Quotes about pawns (15 Quotes)
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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.
Why can't we discuss this in the context of the uprate ... Entergy is plying a careful game of chess ... Dry cask storage is the next movement on the board ... I pray that you are not pawns in this game.
The people who were put out of work were pawns in a very nasty and unnecessary political game.
Most of us are pawns in a game of love we don't understand.
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 will have a chance to look at some kids in the summer who might influence where we go. What we play will be determined by how many kings we have and how many pawns we have.
People see these referendums as a way to stop development, and the kids are going to suffer. I'm frustrated with the logic of people who are willing to let kids be pawns in a power struggle between adults.
This has been a victory of mob rule. Never before have I seen such absolutely incredible and unprofessional behavior from lawyers urging this disruption. They used these children as pawns.
The other is that maybe they are going to be pawns for some leverage in political negotiations. I still have hope that the Taliban have kept them safe for over 100 days now and they will continue to do so,
Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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.
The Family Law Act, which was the child of the disgraceful Senator Lionel Murphy, should be repealed. It has brought death, misery and heartache to countless thousands of Australians. Children are treated like pawns in some crazy game of chess.