Quotes and Sayings About Squares

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.
-- A. E. Housman

#Friendship #Fire #Squares

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
-- Abraham Kuyper

Source : Abraham Kuyper, James D. Bratt (1998). “Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader”, p.461, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

#Squares #Sovereign #Doe

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
-- Adam Sandler

#Lakes #Squares #Gnarly

The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Beautiful #Men #Squares

Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul
-- Al-Masudi

#Ties #Squares #Soul

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
-- Alan Hirsch

#Teaching #Heart #Squares

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?
-- Alan Jay Lerner

#Winning #Men #Squares

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.
-- Albert Einstein

#Squares #Light #Average

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
-- Albert Pike

#Squares #Circles #Justice

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
-- Alex Cox

#Squares #Littles #Language

It was great fun, to learn anew. You think you know enough, but you don't. You must open up; let it in. be receptive, admit what you don't know, which few are willing to do. Start from square one. Again!
-- Alex Toth

#Fun #Thinking #Squares

The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?
-- Alice Eve

#Moving #Home #Squares

It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.
-- Allison Williams

Source : "'Girls' Star Allison Williams Braces for an Unfamiliar Kind of Fame" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 13, 2012.

#Squares #Noses #Waking

Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.
-- Anatoly Karpov

#Squares #Cities #Chess

There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.
-- Anne Beatts

#Real #Night #Squares

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.
-- Antonia Fraser

#Book #Reading #Squares

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?
-- Aprilynne Pike

#Squares #Roots #Square Roots

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 #Squares

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

#Squares #Circles #Roots

It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
-- Augustus De Morgan

#Squares #Circles #Easier

The wheels of justice - they're square wheels.
-- Barbara Corcoran

#Squares #Justice #Wheels

We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going! Put on your lipstick, square your shoulders, suit up, and let’s fight for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work, and let’s end wage discrimination in this century once and for all!
-- Barbara Mikulski

#Fighting #Squares #Equal Pay

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
-- Barbara Mikulski

#Hard Work #Fighting #Squares

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

#Squares #Order #Your Smile

You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.
-- Benjamin Hoff

#Simple #Reality #Squares

I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!
-- Betty Who

#Squares #Pepsi #Want

I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
-- Billy Campbell

#Children #Squares #Ships

I been to many malls from state to state,But I've never been in, say, one this great.I hate to say, about the other shopping centers that's left,But the Albee Square Mall is the doo-doo-def!
-- Biz Markie

#Hate #Rap #Squares

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

#Squares #Tyrants #Voice

I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.
-- Bridget Riley

#Squares #Giving #Essentials