Quotes by category:Squares

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

squares land country

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 squares church

Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course.

billboards times-square squares

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

cubicles squares trying

In the name of religious freedom, relativists have banished religion from the public square. They say they have to destroy public displays of religion in order to protect it. They response has been a culturewide gag order on Christianity in governmental and even commercial circumstances.

Robert H. Knight

squares religious christian

If you're meant to do something like writing and you end up going into banking or finance, your going to be miserable. You're trying to fit something into a square peg and a round hole. It's just never going to work.

squares writing trying

Christians lost the battle in the public square over gay marriage because, frankly, we were outthought, outfought, and outmarketed on the issue.

Robert Jeffress

gay squares christian

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.

squares soul men

Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.

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In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

Robert Metcalfe

programming squares numbers

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

squares book thinking

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you... by Robin Williams

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

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It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the sche... by Roger Taylor

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

schedules garden squares

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square. by Rohinton Mistry

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

Rohinton Mistry

quilts squares important

…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.

Rohinton Mistry

quilts design squares

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

charity squares important

Guys who are larger than life and theatrical and deliciously unpredictable - they're far more interesting than the good guys most of the time. They have these psychological layers that an audience can really cling on to, become fascinated with, much more so than these true-blue, one-dimensional, square-jawed good guys.

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We're in Madison Square Garden, I can't let you beat me in Madiso... by Roy Jones Jr.

We're in Madison Square Garden, I can't let you beat me in Madison Square Garden, are you serious!?

motivation garden squares

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and us... by Roy Rogers

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

guy squares school

We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.

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