Squares Quotes - Page 35

• He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Cafes, Starting Out

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.291, Pan Macmillan

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• Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Moon, Sky

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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• Some conservatives are surprised to find people on the Left supporting the war in Afghanistan. It's not surprising at all...It is hard for the government to prosecute a war and not expand...Conservatives may think they can support war and oppose the expansion of the state, but that is like trying to square the circle. What makes them think they can contain the expansion?

  Sheldon Richman

  War, Thinking, Government

  "Why everyone can be on the same side of war" by Sheldon Richman, www.sfgate.com. January 15, 2002.

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• I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

  Ben Okri

  Order, Your Smile, Evening

  Ben Okri (1992). “An African elegy”, Vintage

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• Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, People

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• With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Religious, Jesus, Blessed

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jun 27, 2013

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