Square Quotes - 2
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With the man I love who loves me not I walked in the street-lamps' flare —But oh, the girls who can ask for love In the lights of Union Square.
sara teasdale— Union Square
When you’re dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social security, you have a problem.
— In appearance on The Daily Show, regarding her book It's My Party Too (January 2005)
The weak point in the system of the Circles if a humble Square may venture to speak of anything Circular as containing any element of weakness appears to me to be found in their relations with Women.
edwin abbot— Chapter 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
Both the 228 Incident (White Terror in Taiwan) and the June 4 Incident (Tiananmen Square Incident in Beijing) are like mirrors, reminding the leaders on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to engage in soul-searching and learn lessons.
— Ma Ying-jeou (2013) cited in: "Ma calls for rights tolerance in China" in The Taipei Times, 5 June 2013.
— Statement made in commemorating the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen incident, 4 June 2013.
As we enter the town, a very expansive Square opens before us, with a large expanse of water in the middle, for the public use… The Square itself is composed of magnificent houses which render Calcutta not only the handsomest town in Asia but one of the finest in the world.
— L. de Grandpré, French visitor in A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, 1803, quoted by Sabyaschi Bhattacharya in Traders and Trades in Old Calcutta, published in Calcutta – The Living City Vol I, Oxford University Press, paperback edition, 1995, p. 210
When I have pointed out one corner of a Square to anyoneand he doesnotcome back withthe other three, I will not point it out to him a second time.
— c.479 BC The Analects.
Another damned, thick, Square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon?
— 1781 Attributed, when presented with the second volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. These words have also been attributed to George III and the Duke of Cumberland.
It's ours. We stole it fair and Square.
s. i. hayakawa— Of the Panama Canal Zone. Attributed.
Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering Square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.
Tennyson— 1850 The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanzas 3-4.
But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A Square of text that looks a little blot.
Tennyson— 1859 Idylls of the King,'Merlin andVivien', l.667-9.
It's my job not always to put Square pegs in Square holes but sometimes to put the odd Square peg in a round hole.
phil brown— 7-Jan-2006, DCFC website
— You're just going to have to work that one out for yourself.
In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the Square
Edgar Lee Masters— "Andy the Night-Watch"
Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the Square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.
james mccosh— P. 58. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and Square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete.… This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.
oscar niemeyer— The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 62
“How can a man be said to have a country where he has no right to a Square inch of soil...”
henry george— Ch. 2 : Political Dangers
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.
hans hofmann— As quoted in Astract Expressionist Painting in America (1983) by W.C, Seitz, p. 88
Think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the Square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn’t be imagined without it.
philip pullman— Ch. 21 : Lord Asriel's Welcome
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a Square deal afterwards.
theodore roosevelt— Speech at Springfield, Illinois (4 July 1903).
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.
jean-paul sartre— Diary entry of Friday 3:00pm (9 February?)
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, “Considerations by the Way,” The Conduct of Life (1860)
We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a Square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.
theodore roosevelt— Theodore Roosevelt, A Square Deal (7 September 1903).
Joint-stools were then created; on three legs Upborne they stood. Three legs upholding firm A massy slab, in fashion Square or round. On such a stool immortal Alfred sat.
william cowper— William Cowper, Sofa, Book I, line 19.
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.
— Natan Sharansky, The Case for Democracy, pp. 40–41, 2004, with Ron Dermer.
In many places, Christians of different denominations join for a procession [on Good Friday] through a city or town. The procession passes through the streets, usually with one or two people carrying a large wooden cross]], which may be placed in a Square or other area large enough to allow a short act of worship to take place.
— Gordon Geddes, Jane Griffiths, in "Christian Belief and Practice: The Roman Catholic Tradition (2002)", p.115
We have more televangelists per Square mile here in this part of the country than I really care to think about. Maybe somebody out there will figure out how to spray for them.
— Introduction to "Small Print", Fiddler Fair (Baen, 1998), p. 18
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man; And 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ay-rick 'ead of 'air; You big black boundin' beggar for you broke a British Square!
rudyard kipling— Rudyard Kipling, Fuzzy-Wuzzy.
If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes, some circular, some triangular, some Square, some oblong, and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the Square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a Square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.
sydney smith— Sydney Smith, Sketches of Moral Philosophy, p. 309; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the air The monkey thought that everything was on the Square The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back But the monkey grabbed his neck and said "Now listen, Jack..." "Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top."
— Nat King Cole, "Straighten Up And Fly Right" (1937) written with Irving Mills.
I have not kept my Square; but that to come Shall all be done by the rule.
— Antony, scene iii
