Quotes with corners

  • We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
  • What doesn't allow us to move forward because when we simply - and I've seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me - is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.
  • Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bobby Orr Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • St. Teresa of Avila It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Ben Elliot Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Paul Klee Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Bill Hicks The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Martin Luther The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
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  • Carl Sandburg The people know the salt of the sea
    and the strength of the winds
    lashing the corners of the earth.
    The people take the earth
    as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
    Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
    The People, Yes (1936)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Mark Twain There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Hiller We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Carlisle Floyd We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Benjamin Watson What doesn't allow us to move forward because when we simply - and I've seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me - is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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