Squares Quotes - Page 11

• An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Tree, Taoism, Saws

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

  George Ellery Hale

  Fall, Rays, Earth

  George Ellery Hale (1931). “Signals from the Stars”

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• When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.

  David Jeremiah

  Drama, Drinking, Wine

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “Prayer, the Great Adventure”, p.92, Multnomah

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• At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.

  Israel Shenker

  Two, Catholic, Population

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?

  John Perry

  Book, School, Boys

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Self

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• You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Firsts, Artistic, Holes

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• A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.

  Hod Lipson

  Pieces, Cheese

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• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  Jack Dorsey

  Communication, Thinking, Payment

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• I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

  Nate Berkus

  Believe, Home, Space

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• I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Beautiful, Real

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.46, tredition

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• In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Leadership, Football

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• Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.

  John Wanamaker

  Integrity, Honor, Levels

  John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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• Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

  Robert Breault

  Trying, Cubicles, Corporations

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• Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

  Timothy Keller

  Cities, Earth, Inches

  "Loving the City: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".

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• Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

  Peter Kay

  Food, Sandwiches, Taste

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• I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Hate, Home, Cities

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain - this is force.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Rocks, People

  Sunzi, Sun-Tzu, Thomas Cleary (1998). “The illustrated art of war”, Shambhala Pubns

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• Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts (as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the distances.

  Isaac Newton

  Distance, Science, Sea

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• Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.

  Texas Guinan

  New York, Stars, Sky

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• The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.

  Digger Phelps

  Tales, Neglected, Behinds

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• I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Feet, Splits, Cedars

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• Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Feet, Kites, Used

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• In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Numbers, Programming, Theory

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• The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

  George Berkeley

  Men, Boards, World

  Quoted by "Punch"; reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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