Corners Quotes - Page 27

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Ursula K. Le Guin

God, Voice, Political

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A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

Robert Breault

Dog, Cat, Self

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Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

Sean O'Casey

Work, People, Giving

Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

Gustave Flaubert

Heart, Blessing, Boredom

Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.60, Penguin

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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

Daniel Craig

Birthday, Regret, Ideas

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There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.

Dinaw Mengestu

Running, Morning, Sleep

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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

Edward Abbey

Men, Facts, Needs

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.

Richard Avedon

Children, Wine, Night

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I have come to think that one of the most satisfying experiences I know — and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person — is just fully to appreciate this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset.

Carl Rogers

Sunset, Clouds, Hands

"Freedom to learn".

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The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

John Stuart Mill

Philosophy, Inspire, Intellectual

John Stuart Mill (2009). “Dissertations and Discussions”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

Ronald Reagan

America, World, Corners Of The World

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My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

Thom Yorke

Father, Musician, Meat

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And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

Robert Rauschenberg

New York, Thinking, Quality

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To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed.

Warren Christopher

Portraits, Dry, Firsts

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I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

Josh Turner

Guy

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From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.

John A. Lejeune

Country, War, Home

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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Laughter, Sleep, Laughing

Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press

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People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This has nothing to do with how most of us experience it, the heart coming around the corner and unexpectedly running into the mind. Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.

Anna Quindlen

Running, Heart, Wine

Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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Beware of people who fall at your feet. They may be reaching for the corner of the rug.

Bill Cosby

Fall, Feet, People

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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People, Made, Mankind

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Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the basic values that I want my children to have: that if they see a need, whether it's around the corner or thousands of miles of away, they should feel motivated to do whatever they can to help.

Kate Snow

Children, Teaching, Kids

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Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They move around in smaller boxes, painted different colours, with wheels on the corners. They need this box-culture because each person thinks of herself and himself as locked in a box called a 'body,' arms and legs, fingers to move pencils and tools, languages because they've forgotten how to communicate, eyes because they've forgotten how to see. Odd little planet. Wish you were here. Home soon.

Richard Bach

Moving, Rain, Home

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What dark corner of the soul did you crawl out of?

Jerry O'Connell

Dark, Hatred, Soul

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In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

William James

Heart, Mystery, Ultimate

William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.23, 谷月社

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A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

Ann Petry

Men, Shoes, Virtue

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