When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.
My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.
It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you're a pawn in the system.
Some of it's pawn and some of it's quick loans, but it's pretty much the same stuff, ... It's typically high interest rate. The loans are made to people who wouldn't qualify for a loan at a bank.
She did not even work for me. I will not allow her or anybody, man or woman, to use me as a pawn for their financial gain.
I amiably pawn my mind, body and soul to my vocation; in return I gain an advantage position in heart, love and lasting legacy along side of our beautiful Angels.
I can't help but feel we are being used as a pawn in the political game, and I'm not going to take it,
Going to a pawn shop is a short-term solution to meet the immediate cash-flow crunch.
I think they were strictly looking for money, that's why they just took the purse, ... If they were going to pawn stuff, there was plenty of stuff like a TV, VCR and ceramic Oriental goods.
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
You are not a pawn in the chessgame of life, you are the mover of the pieces.
People come in and pawn a few things to get back and forth from work.
A number of pawn shops and sporting goods stores were hit,
This case is about a selfish man - her son - who has manipulated his mother and used her as a pawn to satisfy his insatiable need for money.
Everyone doesn't have credit cards. They make pawn shops out to be crooks, but people live week to week. I'm a poor man's bank. No questions asked. You can walk in here, pawn an item and be about your business. You don't need to explain why you need $50 to pay the electric bill.
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.
After the game the King and pawn go into the same box.
A Pawn reaching the eighth square must be at once exchanged for any piece of its own color (except the King) that the player of the Pawn may elect.
I'm in the pawn shop giving the guy the description of my jewelry, he says he has it and he gave it to me free,
Be careful, too, when about to capture a distant Pawn or Piece, that you do not remove your Queen too far from the immediate point of action.
How can you morally support a bill that allows government to pawn our state assets like a junkie each time it needs fast cash?
The closer to the edge you are and the fewer options you have, the more likely you are to use a pawn shop. Pawn shops are a relatively costly form of credit.