Corners Quotes - Page 37

• I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

  Sarah Polley

  World, Want, Ends

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• I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?

  Eric Greitens

  Hero, Athlete, People

  Eric Greitens (2012). “The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.

  George Bird Grinnell

  Lying, Ocean, Sea

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• Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

  Anouk Aimee

  Death, Children, Moving

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• I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.

  Jan Egeland

  Thinking, Political, Peaceful

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Cities, Chicago

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• If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Witty, Memories

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• A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you can’t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.

  James Dyson

  Running, Pain, Giving Up

  "Failure Doesn’t Suck". Interview with Chuck Salter, www.fastcompany.com. May 1, 2007.

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• It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.

  Billy Bragg

  Powerful, Dirty, Shining

  "End of the peer show" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2004.

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• Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.

  Randy Alcorn

  Giving, Would Be, Denver

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.26, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.

  Fernand Braudel

  Firefly, Dark, Light

  Fernand Braudel (1995). “The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II”, p.901, Univ of California Press

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• Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

  Alan Coren

  Should Have, Interesting, People

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• The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Coffee, Beer

  Bill Bryson (2001). “In a Sunburned Country”, Broadway

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• The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners.

  Dave Evans

  Dark, Light, Shining

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• The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world.

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

  Lionel Richie

  Travel, Ideas, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Burnin marijuana pon di corner, It keep me calmer, It mek me smarter. Burnin pon di highway, its the highest grade, gettin into my head.

  Richie Spice

  Weed, Rap, Marijuana

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• With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Men, Play

  'The Defence of Poesie' (1595)

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• Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

  Lesley Garrett

  Dark, Emotional, Music Is

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.

  Lee Westwood

  Disappointment, Good Day, Golf

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• Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.

  Dan Kimball

  Vintage, Feelings, Important

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• In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

  Paul Tsongas

  Running, Taken, Simple

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• Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.

  Mark Kingwell

  Space, Filling In, Matter

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• Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?

  Francesca Woodman

  Girl, Animal, Body

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• You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.

  Dave Sim

  Life, Work, Odds

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