Corners Quotes

• Learn a little patience. You never know what might be around the corner.

  Chris d'Lacey

  Patience, Littles, Might

  Chris d'Lacey (2011). “The Fire Within”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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• Where there is a will, there's prosperity around the corner.

  W. C. Fields

  Money, Prosperity, Around The Corner

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• Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.

  Jane Goodall

  Imagine, Car Accident, Terror

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". Live chat, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.

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• It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fighting, Dark, Back Alleys

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• The real reality is always just around the corner.

  Mason Cooley

  Real, Around The Corner, Reality

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• The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.

  Mason Cooley

  Action, Parades

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• Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids.
  Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying
  and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust
  and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.

  Anne Sexton

  Cat, Kissing, Past

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember.

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Art, Wall, Names

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• All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Understanding, Liberty, Rust

  "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper; Edition by Philip Ayres (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999) Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; "Sensus Communis", 1711.

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• What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!

  Marie of Romania

  Brain, Mind, Littles

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• The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.

  Laura Carmichael

  Attitude, Twenties, Knows

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• Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Safety

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• We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

  John W. Vessey, Jr.

  Running, Military, Marine

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• We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

  Salman Rushdie

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• Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner.

  Dan Millman

  Future, Feet, Use

  Dan Millman (2004). “Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior”, p.70, H J Kramer

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• The world is full of unused corners.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  World

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Space Between”, p.182, Penguin

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• I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Self, Want, Way

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• I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Poorest, Huts

  "Vincent Van Gogh: Art, Life, and Letters".

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• Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

  Bob Dylan

  Politics, Good Will, Around The Corner

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels

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• It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.

  Stirling Moss

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• At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

  John Donne

  Angel, Blow, Earth

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 4 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

  Carl Rogers

  Sunset, Hands, Orange

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• Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

  Mother Teresa

  Long, Laughing, Tone

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• For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.

  Martin Luther

  Sleep, Thinking, Heaven

  "Sermons".

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• A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

  Julien Green

  Stars, Children, Dark

  Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”

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