Squares Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

  Robin Williams

  Block, One Day, Wake Up

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• If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill the big conventions like Madison Square Garden.

  Ralph Nader

  Garden, Two, People

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable. You're trying to fit something into a square peg and a round hole. It's just never going to work.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, Trying, Banking

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.

  Bill McKibben

  Smart, Uprising, People

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out four-square against the Vietnam War in 1964, long before the vast majority of Americans did.

  Manning Marable

  War, Long, Four

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• The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able to follow through their dreams in six months time, to play an effective role in the future.

  Kofi Annan

  Dream, Play, People

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• I mean Donald Trump is a legitimate president. He won fair and square. He didn't win the election because of Russian interference.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Mean, Winning, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of Jesus. He never mentions the shepherds or the manger, but he didn't want us to miss the star and the seekers. It's easy to see why. Their story is our story.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Stars, Missing

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I start at square one with every role. If I let myself feel pressure, it would crush me. The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie. Sometimes that's a palpable thing, but other times it's not. No actor has control of that. All you can control is your own passion for doing the work in the first place.

  Tom Hanks

  Crush, Passion, Numbers

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• The law exists for lots of reasons. In the case of migration, the law exists to maintain the integrity of America. We allow immigrants here, happily so. We don't deny legal immigrants a path to citizenship in this country. But beyond that, since we can't take in everybody, since everybody can't come here, it's physically not possible - well, it is. You know you could put the population of the world inside the state of Texas in 1,500-square-feet homes. I mean, you wouldn't want to, but you could do it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Integrity, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent of the population hate them intensely for their crimes. This was shown by the mass movement against the Gang of Four which erupted at Tiananmen Square on April 5, 1976, when the Gang were still riding high, Chairman Mao was critically ill and Premier Zhou had passed away.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Hate, Riding, Population

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometres... If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn't have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Country, Numbers, Political

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• Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

  Rachel Caine

  Scotland, Titles, Internet

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town: The Morganville Vampires”, p.144, Penguin

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• You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting." "I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.

  Cassandra Clare

  Tables, Want, Suits

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• He [Uncle Vernon] held up the envelope in which Mrs. Weasley’s letter had come, and Harry had to fight down a laugh. Every bit of it was covered in stamps except for a square inch on the front, into which Mrs. Weasley had squeezed the Dursleys’ address in minute writing. “She did put enough stamps on, then,” said Harry, trying to sound as though Mrs. Weasley’s was a mistake anyone could make.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Mistake, Writing

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• But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.

  Philip Pullman

  Science, Thinking, Roots

  "Northern Lights". Book by Philip Pullman, 1995.

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• If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

  Sidney Poitier

  Letting Go, Reality, Self

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• It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times!

  Mikhail Tal

  Thinking, Games, Drawing

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• We have met the enemy and have learned nothing more about him. I have, however, learned some things about myself. There are things men can do to one another that are sobering to the soul. It is one thing to reconcile these things with God, but another to square it with yourself.

  Robert Leckie

  Men, Soul, Enemy

  "Fictional character: Robert Leckie". "The Pacific", 2010.

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• There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.

  John Steinbeck

  Mean, Hair, Talking

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.95, Penguin

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