Corners Quotes

• I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Self, Want, Way

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• We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

  Salman Rushdie

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• Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.

  Chris d'Lacey

  Patience, Littles, Might

  Chris d'Lacey (2011). “The Fire Within”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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• The world is full of unused corners.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  World

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Space Between”, p.182, Penguin

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• Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

  Dan Millman

  Future, Feet, Use

  Dan Millman (2004). “Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior”, p.70, H J Kramer

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• I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Poorest, Huts

  "Vincent Van Gogh: Art, Life, and Letters".

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• At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

  John Donne

  Angel, Blow, Earth

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 4 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.

  Martin Luther

  Sleep, Thinking, Heaven

  "Sermons".

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• Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

  Mother Teresa

  Long, Laughing, Tone

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• People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

  Carl Rogers

  Sunset, Hands, Orange

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• It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Daughter, Mother

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.25, A&C Black

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• A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

  Julien Green

  Stars, Children, Dark

  Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”

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• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Squares, Political

  "Rock Island C.R.R. v. United States, 254 U.S. 141, 143". Judicial opinion, November 22, 1920.

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• I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

  John Fogerty

  Cheating, Cutting, Thinking

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Writing, Attachment

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• If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

  Emma Thompson

  Birthday, Broken Heart, Grief

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• most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Rooms, Window

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  You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Perseverance, Journey, Feet

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• It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

  Stirling Moss

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• Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

  Bruce Oldfield

  Cutting, Accepting, Rate

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• Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Letting Go, Truth, Past

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• Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  World, Stones, Nations

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.91, Penguin

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• There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Love, Garden, Soul

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• Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

  Max Perutz

  Discovery, Puck, Unexpected

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• I went around the corner to motion pictures.

  Jerry Reed

  Motion Pictures, Around The Corner

  "Jerry Reed dies - country singer, movie actor" by John Gerome, www.sfgate.com. September 3, 2008.

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