Squares Quotes - Page 31

But treat dimes fair and I'm bigger than the city lights down in times square

Puff Daddy

Rap, Light, Cities

Song: Mo Money Mo Problems

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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Fashion, Simple

Michel de Montaigne (1893). “The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne”

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Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack
And leave your friends and go.
O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
Look not to left nor right:
In all the endless road you tread
There's nothing but the night.

Alexander Pope

Fear, Night, Fire

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Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper.

John Aubrey

Distance, Science, Men

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That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; its mountains and craters have been measured to within a few yards; while on the earth's surface there are 30,000,000 square kilometres (sixty times the extent of France), upon which the foot of man has never trod, which the eye of man has never seen.

Camille Flammarion

Knowledge, Eye, Science

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At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that a minority will have the force to subvert a government . . . . But theoretic reasoning in this, as in most other cases, must be qualified by the lessons of practice.

James Madison

Government, Views, Practice

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.216, Coventry House Publishing

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It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

Henry David Thoreau

Solitude, Would Be, Miles

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.85, 谷月社

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The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately, so are most Americans.

Conan O'Brien

Home, Census Bureau, Feet

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All my days are themed. Monday is managementTuesday is product, engineering, and design. Wednesday is marketing, growth, and communications. Thursday is partnership and developers. Friday is company and cultureOn the days beginning with T, I start at Twitter in the morning, then go to Square in the afternoon. Sundays are for strategySaturday is a day off.

Jack Dorsey

Friday, Monday, Morning

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When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

Eric Ludy

Encounters, Boat, Crash

Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “When God Writes Your Love Story (Expanded Edition): The Ultimate Guide to Guy/Girl Relationships”, p.33, Multnomah

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You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me

Willie Pastrano

Funny, Garden, Boxing

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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

Padma Lakshmi

Mom, Scared, Old Time

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Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one.

Mike Aquilina

Humility, Pride, Accomplishment

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On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith,
Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

Positive K

Rap, Hip Hop, Competition

Song: Step Up Front

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I been to many malls from state to state,But I've never been in, say, one this great.I hate to say, about the other shopping centers that's left,But the Albee Square Mall is the doo-doo-def!

Biz Markie

Hate, Rap, Shopping

Song: Albee Square Mall, Album: Goin' Off, 1988

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Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.

Woody Guthrie

Gun, Oil, Razors

"Pastures Of Plenty: A Self Portrait". Book by Woody Guthrie, p. 3, 1990.

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I don’t like gambling very much. I don’t like being at the mercy of those little white squares that roll around and decide whether you win or lose. I like to have the say-so myself.

Lawrence Tierney

Winning, Gambling, White

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The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window.

Jim Harrison

Jobs, Husband, Fighting

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My advice to you is be boring, square, asshole parents... When I have kids, the most recent CD I will own - Phil Collins, No Jacket Required, and I'll rave about it. 'Do you like rock 'n' roll? 'Cause this is rockin' good stuff, kid.'

Patton Oswalt

Kids, Rocks, Cds

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An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

Henri Matisse

Character, Artist, Expression

Henri Matisse, Susan Lambert, Victoria and Albert Museum (1981). “Matisse lithographs”

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It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Humor, Locks

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Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at the root of the prodigious edifice that is evolution... It today is the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. Stating life began by the chance collision of particles of nucleic acid in the "prebiotic soup."

Jacques Monod

Science, Roots, Liberty

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We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going! Put on your lipstick, square your shoulders, suit up, and let’s fight for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work, and let’s end wage discrimination in this century once and for all!

Barbara Mikulski

Fighting, Equal Pay, America

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The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.

Jay Maisel

Photography, Air, Space

Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.138, New Riders

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In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Girl, New York, White

"Mets-Phillies enters timeline of history" by Steve Berthiaume, www.espn.com. May 2, 2011.

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