Corners Quotes - Page 39

• There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Lying, Eye

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.5, Souvenir Press

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• To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Enemy, Done

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.48, Manonmani Publishers

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• The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner... The very prospect of effective treatment seems so remote that it doesn't even enter into the speculative day-to-day conversation of people engaged in cancer research... New treatments have not produced any detectable decline in the total annual cancer mortality, even for children.

  John Cairns

  Children, Cancer, Men

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• The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

  Howard Staunton

  Squares, Hands, White

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• It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

  Brad Pitt

  Selfish, Thinking, What If

  "Ask a Basterd: Can I Answer my cell at a movie if it seems urgent?". www.wired.com. July 15, 2009.

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• If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.

  Jay Adams

  Men, Thinking, People

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• Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grateful, Waiting, Feelings

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• Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Adventure, Giving, Thank God

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• Ever feel like God is a million miles away? The truth is, he's not. Whatever struggle you're going through, you can rest assured you're not alone. You have God in your corner.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Struggle, Religion

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• So this is feminist corner then.

  Prince Philip

  Feminist, Classic

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• The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I've waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember. The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it's a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself. I even love the smell of books. People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count on the Bookmobile.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Beautiful, Wise, Friday

  "Big Stone Gap". Book by Adriana Trigiani, January 1, 2003.

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• You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

  John Heilemann

  Running, Lonely, Home

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• Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

  John Lukacs

  Forever, Matter, Brooms

  John Lukacs (1990). “Confessions of an original sinner”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

  Grace Hartigan

  Ideas, House, Bird

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.

  A. R. Rahman

  Philosophy, Heart, Knowledgeable Person

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• All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.

  Dana Spiotta

  Wall, Streets, Feels

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• We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.

  Dana Spiotta

  Long, Lazy, Afternoon

  Dana Spiotta (2006). “Eat the Document: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I have loved this life.  I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth.  And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

  Shane Koyczan

  Dream, Play, Laughing

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• Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

  Mark Lawrence

  Memories, Cutting, Dangerous

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.154, Penguin

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• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Real, Book, Fate

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• A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

  Nick Clooney

  President, Salary, Social

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• If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner,
  then we can certainly have a garden.

  Bill de Blasio

  Garden, Fast Food, Restaurants

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• Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

  Abigail Washburn

  Girl, Daughter, Heart

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• There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, People, Certain

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.

  Charlie Peacock

  Art, Life Is, Needed

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