Quotes with square

  • I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
  • The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
  • As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Frank Dane A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Caroline Winberg A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'
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  • Theodore Roosevelt A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Carl Hagelin As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alex Cox Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Bill Buford Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bob Schaffer In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Abraham Kuyper In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
    Abraham Kuyper
    Dutch politician and theologian (1837 - 1920)
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  • Bill Flores It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bryan Batt My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bruce Vilanch My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    And lights are guttering low:
    Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
    And leave your friends and go.

    Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
    Look not to left nor right:
    In all the endless road you tread
    There's nothing but the night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Lawrence Durrell Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bai Ling Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • E. Joseph Cossman Square meals often make round people.
    E. Joseph Cossman
    American author
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  • Bill Gates The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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