Squares Quotes - Page 19

• It was great fun, to learn anew. You think you know enough, but you don't. You must open up; let it in. be receptive, admit what you don't know, which few are willing to do. Start from square one. Again!

  Alex Toth

  Fun, Thinking, Enough

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• [Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

  Stewart Brand

  Motivation, Inspiration, Wind Farms

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• In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.

  Maya Angelou

  Makeup, Blood, Order

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• But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

  Roman Abramovich

  Important, Charity, Pigeons

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• they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly

  Toni Morrison

  Sweat, Creating, Tree

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Sula”, p.57, Random House

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• I wanted to play in New York when I was in my prime and I was young, fierce, lock-down [defender]. Madison Square Garden, that would have been sick. But right now, China is way more adventurous for me.

  Metta World Peace

  New York, Garden, Play

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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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• Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul

  Al-Masudi

  Ties, Soul, Age

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• Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

  Miguel Najdorf

  Fall, Chess Game, Chess Pieces

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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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• ...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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• Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Meals, Four

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• Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Mother, Men, Wife

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “The War of the End of the World”, p.331, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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• An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one

  Laura Berg

  Entrepreneur, Chance, Hundred

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• Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her. Some designers cut their clothes for certain body types and others for others. Occasionally the pattern will make her ass look strangely square or the fabric will cling in an unflattering way, but Not Cut Well is always the answer, and it has the extremely delightful quality of saving your ass and being completely true at the same time. Use it wisely.

  S. Bear Bergman

  Girl, Cutting, Clothes

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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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• 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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• 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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• Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.

  Edwin Black

  Country, Garden, San Francisco

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