Square Quotes

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[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is… — Michel de Montaigne
I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out… — Fred Astaire
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a… — Claude Monet
I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation. — William Everson
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… — Augustus De Morgan
How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ? — P T Barnum
If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God… — Tom Lehrer
Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone… — Laura Hillenbrand
At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied… — Paul Frolich
Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame. — Jay Maisel
There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted." — Graham Taylor
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in… — Seneca the Younger
To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was… — William Vickrey
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood. — Oliver Goldsmith
Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on… — Pope Francis
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more… — E. M. Forster
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that… — James Madison
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its… — Primo Levi
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs… — Margaret Atwood

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