Squares Quotes - Page 32

• There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Issues, Literature, China

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• Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, America, Views

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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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• The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.

  Kazimir Malevich

  White, Feelings, Void

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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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• 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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• I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying across the square. "But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Tyrants, Voice, Trying

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.703, Macmillan

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• Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Tragedy, Kabul, Miles

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• Leo had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!

  Rick Riordan

  Merry Christmas, Banner, Times Square

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• He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he’s holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he’s won fair and square.

  Rick Yancey

  Heart, Territory, Fingers

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.375, Penguin

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• When you run in fear, it's square into the wall.

  Byron Katie

  Running, Wall, Fear

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• Imagine a person with a gift of ridicule [He might say] First that a negative quantity has no logarithm; secondly that a negative quantity has no square root; thirdly that the first non-existent is to the second as the circumference of a circle is to the diameter.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Circles, Roots, Negative

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• If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

  Tom Lehrer

  Commitment, Two, Roots

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• Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone into its creation: the sun and rain that spilled on the cocoa plant, the soil that nourished it, the hands that picked the beans, and so on. My taste of chocolate became a lesson on the interconnectedness of things, and the infinite blessings for which I am grateful.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Rain, Book, Grateful

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• We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

  Vicente Fox

  Communication, Media, Alive

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• At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied well ahead of time. Karl Liebknecht's voice then rang out: 'Down with the War! Down with the Government!' The police immediately rushed at him. For the first time since the beginning of the war open resistance to it had appeared on the streets of the capital. The ice was broken.

  Paul Frolich

  Morning, War, Government

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• The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Roots, Numbers, People

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• The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

  Paul Krugman

  Impact, Law, Fax Machines

  "Paul Krugman Responds To All The People Throwing Around His Old Internet Quote" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 30, 2013.

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• In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

  Philip Yancey

  Risk, Church, Arena

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.229, Harper Collins

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• I would rather have a square inch of New York than all the rest of the world.

  Texas Guinan

  New York, World, Inches

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• Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

  Archilochus

  Heart, Men, Feet

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• Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Miracle, Church, Yards

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• But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

  Cressida Cowell

  Holes, Square Pegs, Rounds

  "How to Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2005.

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• Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.

  Tommy Davidson

  Dancing, Black, Persons

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• We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

  Brian Andreas

  Stars, Science, Night

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