Square Quotes - page 2

em>The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought. (Peter Medawar)
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space. View quote
Hans Hofmann
I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square. View quote
Cassandra Clare
My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here... then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States - that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself he given a square deal. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society. View quote
Natan Sharansky
People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go. View quote
Václav Havel
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. View quote
Albert Pike
We scientists are clever - too clever - are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it! View quote
Richard Feynman
I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity. View quote
Christiaan Huygens
Okemah was one of the singiest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns. (Woody Guthrie)
A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal. View quote
Frank Dane
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. View quote
Bill Gates
To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind of rudimentary alphabet by means of which everything could be expressed with the most limited means. They evoked prehistoric runes and the early I-Ching, or Book of Changes. View quote
Michel Seuphor
If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality. View quote
Alfred Austin
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square. View quote
Luca Pacioli
As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground. View quote
Mark Z. Jacobson
Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course. View quote
Rick Riordan
Lei had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron, so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo! View quote
Rick Riordan
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square. (Philip Yancey)
The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
Have you ever been to Colorado?" I frowned. "Is that one of those square ones, in the middle? View quote
James Patterson
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. View quote
Carson McCullers
But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole. View quote
Cressida Cowell