#apt

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#enemy #may #pawn #piece #play

As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#around #captain #coming #dominant #episodes

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#both #bridge #captain #chair #chairman

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #chair #company #day #england

The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters. ↗

— Kurt Student

#aim #attack #capital #capture #dutch

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#again #captains #commercial #conduct #enterprises

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#horse #needs #religion #sense

I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain. ↗

— Mats Sundin

#i #i think #know #people #success

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#captures #like #oil #whoever #wild

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. ↗