Squares Quotes - Page 18

• There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

  Graham Taylor

  Football, Balls, Thirds

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• ...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

  Seneca the Younger

  Distance, Teaching, Mean

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• To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."

  William Vickrey

  Men, Watches, Would Be

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• As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Circles, Voice, Foundation

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.397

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• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Heaven, Mind

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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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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• I am looking forward to continue my career in Orange & Blue and to work with Phil Jackson, a champion who builds championship teams. Madison Square Garden is the mecca of basketball and I am surrounded by the greatest fans in the world.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Garden

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• Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, White

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

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• No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so. . . . [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious believers. That remains true today, both in Baghdad and in Baton Rouge.

  Mark Lilla

  Religious, Long, Mind

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• Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Dog, Night, Journey

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• The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

  Tom Lantos

  Leadership, Jobs, Chinese

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• I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, Reading, Brilliant

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• It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Hands, Feet, Mind

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• The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.

  Luc Montagnier

  Years, Two, Feet

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• By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.

  Rick Steves

  Art, Night, Venice

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• There was a young fellow from Trinity,
  Who took the square root of infinity.
  But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets;
  He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

  George Gamow

  Science, Math, Roots

  "One, Two, Three...Infinity". Book by George Gamow, 1947.

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• Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Taken, Tired

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.

  John Banville

  Cities, Venice, Blue

  John Banville (2011). “The Newton Letter”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose; there was no more planting or ploughing to be done. Then he realized what it was. They were digging a mass grave. He thought of shouting an order to about turn or at least to avert their eyes, but they were almost on it, and some of them had already seen their burial place. The songs died on their lips and the air was reclaimed by the birds.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Song, Eye, Men

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• The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.

  Tod Wodicka

  Orange, Clouds, Sky

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• I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

  Louis Kahn

  Choices, Use, Development

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• Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

  Jane Jacobs

  Density, Today, Detroit

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.204, Vintage

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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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