Corners Quotes - Page 25

• Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

  August Wilson

  Death, Fastballs

  August Wilson, Larry Fishburne, Samuel G Freedman, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney (2007). “August Wilson Century Cycle”

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• Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

  Carter Burwell

  Death, Giving, Our Society

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• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Education, Fear, Lying

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

  Joyce Meyer

  Encouraging, May, Quitting

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• The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Family, Attitude, Children

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966".

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• There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Happiness, Children, Games

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• There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Ideas, Giving

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• For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Humility, Political

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• There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Humility

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• I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Jealousy, Vapour

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• Searching for money, what are you really searching? You are searching power, you are searching strength. Searching for prestige, political authority, what are you searching? You are searching power, strength - and strength is all the time available just by the corner. You are searching in wrong places.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Political, Prestige

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• The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

  Theodore White

  Lying, Rain, Night

  1969 In the New York Times, 5 Jan.

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• We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

  Bill Nye

  Motivational, Middle Of Nowhere, Specks

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• Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.

  Gerald Massey

  Smile, Joy, Delight

  "The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey".

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• I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

  Sara Gilbert

  Pain, Grief, Love Is

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• Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that had bunny wallpaper...and a bookcase crammed with the collected Beatrix Potter. Snow White was in a youth bed and Rose Red was in a crib, and next to them was the little blue and white guest room that one of them would have one day. Because I recognize emotions only in retrospect, I didn't know that I was happy. As always, there was something nagging at my mind's corners. But I did know that I had all that it is proper in this world to wish for.

  Mary Cantwell

  Happiness, Girl, Blue

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• ...and I'm standing on the corner of Fifth and Vermouth.

  Tom Waits

  Drinking, Fifth, Standing

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• Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

  Rumi

  Gratitude, Life Changing, Yoga

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• I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love for freedom and the courage to uproot themselves, leave homeland and friends, to come to a strange land. And coming here they created something new in all the history of mankind-a land where man is not beholden to government, government is beholden to man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Ocean, Blessed, Men

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Two, Differences

  The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27

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• My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Struggle, Eye, Looks

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• If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while. ... Like the early morning frost, this intellectual refreshment withers the parasitic and nasty vegetation that smothers the good seed. Bursting forth at last is the flower of truth.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Morning, Flower, Intellectual

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.35, MIT Press

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• The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

  Carl Sagan

  Humility, Thinking, Compassion

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he did. He wrote that you can go to live in France, but you can't become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Italy, but you can't become a German, an Italian. He went through Turkey, Greece, Japan and other countries. But he said anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Writing, Men

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• This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!

  David Dellinger

  Happiness, Christmas, Dream

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