Checkmate Quotes

“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. (" Check and mate ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Intuition listens to an inner voice and responds to an instant sentiment that may checkmate reason. It is only in hindsight that its soundness or fallibility is proven. (" Blame storming ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When she felt the hot creamy chocolate go down her throat and into her stomach some of the tension in her body disappeared. Three long sips later and she felt close to being able to face the day. By
the time half the cocoa was gone she was in her special place, the place where everything was fine and she could face anything including Connor and a visit from her dad. By the time she finished the rest of the cocoa she'd be able to keep this calm going for the rest of the day, but of course she needed a second cup.”
― R.L. Mathewson, Checkmate

“In my experience, commitment leads to expectations, and expectations lead to lies, and hurt, and disappointment-stuff I'd rather not experience, or force others to experience.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“I coax my palm into his lapel in search of my wish, returning his feverish kiss." Checkmate, you son of a bug, "I say against his mouth two seconds before my fingers find an empty pocket.

"Sleight of hand, blossom," he says right back. "'Tis in fact in my pants pocket, if you'd like to search there."

I shove him off and drop to the floor, wiping my mouth. "It's mine!"

"And you'll receive it when the time is right." His lips, all I can look at, tilt into that smug smile that I've come to detest. He motions toward the chair. "Sit. You've just been soundly kissed. No doubt you're short of breath."

"Don't flatter yourself." I huff in an effort to hide the gulp of air and hold the teddy bear against my chest. "That kiss meant nothing. It had underlying motivation."

"Oh, to be sure. That kiss was nothing if not motivational.”
― A.G. Howard, Splintered

“Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

“Divided - No tides of time or distance will wash away your step. It does not fleet as they do, those gladiators and their mighty spears or the beasts that howl into the dark for release.
Our story carves deeper, pitilessly, infinitely. A wound that bleeds the ink that stained your palm and the tears of an impossible tomorrow.”
― RJ Arkhipov

“I feel helpless, as though he's herding me around a chessboard to checkmate.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Be ready for every moment, you don’t know which check is the checkmate.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“The Offing - And if the sky itself, no matter its hue, were to fracture... What then? Would I then know freedom's name?

In my wake lies the shore—a past where I had been happy—refusing to yield to the tide. Before me, upon the horizon, is the sun... hesitant... inert... A new day cannot rise if its ancestor does not fall. Am I but a pawn in this game? I cannot command the sun to set, nor will the moon to take its place and wash the shore away. That power belongs to kings.

To drown in the offing.
Such sovereign beauty. Such exquisite pain.”
― RJ Arkhipov

“A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you do believe that earning notches in my belt is what I'm trying to do here, then aren't those very notches why you came to me?"
This girl wasn't stupid, just angry. Her mouth pressed into a thin line; she hated that Trisha was right, but she also understood that Trisha was indeed right.
"I came to you because my brother's friend believed that you could cure me, not play chess with my body parts." Trisha could see another painting, a chessboard with scrotums and vaginas, and in place of the king: eyeballs. Well, this was checkmate.”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“What Will Linger/Hollow of Him - They crept so quietly back. Mere hints of words, at first, then whispers in the loud echoing a winter past. In this place, hollow of Him, his poetry resounded. I could almost taste the fragments of the worlds he had discovered. I remember the ache in his words; you could see each syllable smoulder in his gaze.”
― RJ Arkhipov

“People die from checkmate..., they run and run they are always the figure king, they run and run one of their paths once it's blocked they run and run keep it again a path is blocked they run in this place again and again.... with the time the path goes small and small one moment you have one path and then a other figure comes and it has been blocked by it... so you are killed by this you can't protect yourself. It's the best attack ever made, it's called checkmate!”
― Deyth Banger

“Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... so far I can say that I see the chessboard different.”
― Deyth Banger

“Bad and bad and bad and bad move... and move and move just another checkmate...”
― Deyth Banger

“There should be a place where you can take shelter and refresh yourself when you are upset, demoralised or bored, otherwise checkmate; and the game finishes for you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“ख़ुद ही देखो तुमने शह किसकी पाई है
ज़ाहिर है तुम्हें कि मात कहाँ से आई है

KHUDD HI DEKHO, TUMNEIN SHAH KISKI PAI HAI
ZAHIR HAI TUMHEIN KI MAT KAHAN SE AAYI HAI”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“An untethered ambition can be toxic. Never forget this; life’s a game we don’t realize until it’s almost over. Choose and play your cards wisely, checkmate.”
― Emmanuel Apetsi

“For a long time, I have been the one to say ‘checkmate’ until it occurred to me that it could be 'check on your mate'.”
― DON SANTO

“In politics, 99.99% of the time. those with louder voices are the ones who are receiving invoices. It is not about ethics, morals or integrity. It is about the paycheck. There is no checkmate but it is a check payment.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Dealing with manipulative baby mamas is like playing chess with someone who wrote the rulebook and keeps moving the pieces when you're not looking. Checkmate, drama queen.”
― Don Santo