Howard Staunton quote: "The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man."

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.
HOWARD STAUNTON

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each...
HOWARD STAUNTON

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which ...
HOWARD STAUNTON

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
HOWARD STAUNTON

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game.
HOWARD STAUNTON

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety...
HOWARD STAUNTON

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manne...
HOWARD STAUNTON

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
HOWARD STAUNTON

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the...
HOWARD STAUNTON

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, wh...
HOWARD STAUNTON

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesti...
IMELDA STAUNTON

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
IMELDA STAUNTON

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better ...
IMELDA STAUNTON

I've always liked new writing.
IMELDA STAUNTON

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
IMELDA STAUNTON

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
IMELDA STAUNTON

I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.
IMELDA STAUNTON

We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really ...
IMELDA STAUNTON

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IMELDA STAUNTON

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently...
IMELDA STAUNTON

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have t...
IMELDA STAUNTON

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did lo...
IMELDA STAUNTON

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slig...
IMELDA STAUNTON

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't ...
IMELDA STAUNTON

I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she coul...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an in...
IMELDA STAUNTON

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what mak...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and l...
IMELDA STAUNTON

The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drak...
IMELDA STAUNTON

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.
IMELDA STAUNTON

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesti...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. I...
IMELDA STAUNTON

The dreamers of today are the architects of tomorrow.
SARAH STAUNTON

Sam thinks he's ready for it and from what I've seen I'd agree. He is in the first team now and lear...
STEVE STAUNTON

I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don&#...
IMELDA STAUNTON

It's not as if it's something I ever thought I would get.
IMELDA STAUNTON

I seem to be doing all my own cooking and shopping and washing.
IMELDA STAUNTON

Dan Crawford was an extraordinary man who single-handedly kept one of the most unique theatres in Lo...
IMELDA STAUNTON

Working with Mike was shocking, terrifying, exhilarating, ... It was the best job of my life. It's r...
IMELDA STAUNTON

I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
IMELDA STAUNTON

A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Whose artf...
LORD HOWARD "NED" HOWARD

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
HOWARD THURMAN

I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of c...
HOWARD GARDNER

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have popu...
HOWARD RHEINGOLD

The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.
VERNON HOWARD

Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
VERNON HOWARD

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
VERNON HOWARD

Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not ...
VERNON HOWARD

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is hap...
VERNON HOWARD

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoiden...
VERNON HOWARD

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting ...
VERNON HOWARD

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a po...
VERNON HOWARD

To change what you get, you must change who you are.
VERNON HOWARD

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is den...
VERNON HOWARD

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
VERNON HOWARD

A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. T...
VERNON HOWARD

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash...
VERNON HOWARD

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
VERNON HOWARD

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
VERNON HOWARD

What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows ...
VERNON HOWARD

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the othe...
VERNON HOWARD

Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
VERNON HOWARD

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
HARLAN HOWARD

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
HOWARD HUGHES

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never ma...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly...
HOWARD JACOBSON

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
HOWARD DEAN

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some rig...
HOWARD DEAN

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. ...
HOWARD DEAN

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created...
HOWARD DEAN

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and va...
HOWARD DEAN

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about ...
HOWARD RHEINGOLD

There are customers we serve, and customers we service.
-Captain Andreyasn
HOWARD TAYLER

Are you done briefing the company yet?"

"We, um... Haven't gotten through the introductio...
HOWARD TAYLER

Air traffic control is going to have a steamy old fit on your dime, boy.

They can get in ...
HOWARD TAYLER

Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-s...
HOWARD TAYLER

Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble, and ev...
HOWARD TAYLER

New orders: Make sure everybody who doesn't want to live here is aboard in five minutes. We are leav...
HOWARD TAYLER

Maxim 6:
If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

HOWARD TAYLER

Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
HOWARD TAYLER

Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
HOWARD TAYLER

Maxim 3:
An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.

-The Seventy Maxi...
HOWARD TAYLER

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BRITTANY HOWARD

We will not know unless we begin.
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HOWARD AIKEN

May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter - Either...
HOWARD AIKEN

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we wou...
HOWARD AIKEN

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
HOWARD AIKEN

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears abo...
HOWARD NEMEROV

Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a sti...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

The Things that Cause a Quiet Life

My friend, the things that do attain
The happy li...
HENRY HOWARD

Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly...
VERNON HOWARD

Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred...
HOWARD COBLE

We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constitu...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and...
HOWARD COBLE

You are changed by the people you are closest to, and this has allowed me to forgive myself for the ...
HOWARD JACOBSON

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats...
HOWARD NEMEROV

For whatever reason, whenever I'm having a get-together, I'll turn on my projector and play ...
BRITTANY HOWARD

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
HOWARD ZINN

My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many ...
TERRENCE HOWARD

You can't fatten the pig on market day.
JOHN HOWARD

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.
HOWARD HENDRICKS

I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vin...
RON HOWARD

The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whe...
TIM HOWARD

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have ...
HOWARD COSELL

Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
AARON HOWARD

If ignorance is bliss, then I'd hope to, one day, be MultiOrgasmic.
AARON HOWARD

Responsible Drinking? Now that's an Oxymoron.
AARON HOWARD

LIfe? LIfe? It's Death that makes life worth living for.
AARON HOWARD

I shove him back. “I can convince him.”
“What? By seducing him?” Morpheus scof...
A.G. HOWARD

He spins us both, wrapping us in his wings until I’m dazed and giggling.
“I wanted to l...
A.G. HOWARD

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

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Howard Staunton

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

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