Squares Quotes - Page 13

• The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy.

  Henry Hyde

  Christian, Religious, Democracy

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• How do these celebrities stay so impossibly thin? Simple: They have full-time personal trainers, who advise them on nutrition, give them pep talks, and shoot them with tranquilizer darts whenever they try to crawl, on hunger-weakened limbs, toward the packet of rice cakes that constitutes the entire food supply in their 37,000-square-foot mansions. For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).

  Dave Barry

  Simple, Cake, Feet

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• To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Wisest Man, Vision

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.302, CUP Archive

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• It was not his job at square leg to inform the batsman what I was doing. I did nothing for which I need to apologise.

  Mike Gatting

  Jobs, Needs, Legs

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• The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.

  Emily Carr

  Joy, Excuse, Foolish

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.122, D & M Publishers

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• Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?

  Ted Cruz

  Moon, Say Anything, Why Not

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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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• The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square was only the first episode. It is headed for a series of Tiananmen Squares. It cannot continue to develop privately and at the same time maintain its authoritarian character politically. It is headed for a clash. Sooner or later, one or the other will give.

  Milton Friedman

  Character, Giving, Political

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's still one of the proudest moments in my career boxing at Madison Square Garden. Some fighters who have won titles and championships have never boxed at Madison Square Garden. For a little kid just off a council estate to do it was a dream come true.

  Ricky Hatton

  Dream, Motivation, Kids

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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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• To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

  Walt Whitman

  Dark, Men, Light

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.96, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• There is more grace per square foot in San Francisco than any place on earth.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Feet, San Francisco, Grace

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• I had a van that I customized so I could basically live out of that while I traveled and then I graduated to an Airstream. I've got three Airstreams now and they're all customized different ways. The good thing about those is there's not enough square footage to blow all your money.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Blow, Different, Three

  Source: pursuitist.com

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• I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

  Alessia Cara

  New York, Crazy, Times Square

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.

  Robert Longo

  Art, Play, Russia

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Coal, Affection, Strikes

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• Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!

  William Shakespeare

  Talking

  William Shakespeare (1872). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.436

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• The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Essentials, Chess

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• I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Brother, Years

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

  Peter Kay

  Food, Sandwiches, Taste

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• I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Feet, Car, Twenties

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Mean, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.278

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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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• 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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• I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, New York, Humor

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