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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers. -- Galileo Galilei
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. -- Johannes Kepler
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. -- Ezra Pound
The square root of I is I. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. -- Walt Whitman
I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks. -- Jerry Mathers
I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.' -- John Hodgman
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square -- Philip Yancey
There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted." -- Graham Taylor
They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square. -- Willie Stargell
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. -- Mark Twain
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan. -- C. S. Lewis
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. -- Theodore Roosevelt
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa. -- Mo Ibrahim
Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. -- Paul A. Freund
The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another. -- Pal Benko
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 the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey. -- Pope Francis
It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. -- Gerald R. Ford
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors. -- Michael Atiyah
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. -- Cormac McCarthy
Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life. -- Abraham Lincoln
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. -- Oscar Wilde
Sleep is for squares. -- Henry Rollins
When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work. -- Joel Sternfeld
The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky. -- Shana Alexander
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy. -- Randall Terry
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. -- Hernan Cortes
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic. -- David Morrissey
I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. -- Dexter Fletcher
When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl. -- Tom Douglas
Don't skimp on the ice. Bags from the grocery store melt so fast and water down your drinks. I prefer beautiful, big squares for my cocktails. -- Jose Andres Puerta
I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares. -- Giles Foden
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art. -- Jerry Saltz
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. -- Vicente Fox
I think chocolate in moderation is not bad for you, but I eat way too much. I tell myself I'm going to eat two squares, and then I end up eating half a big bar. -- Andrew Luck
I don't really need a personal trainer or watch what I eat. I can't start the day without a hot chocolate or finish it without a few squares of dark chocolate. It's good for my mood! -- Blake Lively
As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s. -- Evo Morales
When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been. -- Norman Foster
I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story. -- Ian Rankin
My only focus after I start the putter away from the ball is keeping the back of my left wrist as fat as possible from start to finish. This is critical to keeping the putterhead and ball moving straight down the target line after impact. It's also how Rory Mcllroy squares his putterface, and obviously it works for him. -- Jordan Spieth
Hits are for squares. -- Thurston Moore
To get squares you have to give up squares. -- Bobby Fischer
We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go! -- Marlon Brando
Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares -- Miguel Najdorf
[...] its small squares of fast-passing light, the early evening windows of the lives of hundreds of others. -- Ali Smith
I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. -- Sheryl Crow
What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles. -- Trey Anastasio
I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge. -- M. E. W. Sherwood
I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. -- Dexter Fletcher
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares. -- Tom Lehrer
In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle. -- Euclid
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Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere. -- John Muir
Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances. -- Isaac Newton
In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me. -- Anatoly Karpov
In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, "There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it". -- Cliff Sloan
Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record -- Nick Murray
As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt. -- Josef Albers
The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides If a triangle is cleverly constructed. -- Richard Digance
I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars. -- Nell Zink
In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube. -- C. S. Lewis
We made music seated on the grass of Brasilia's super-squares, at home, at college. It was a creative time, more ingenuous, when the people amused more themselves, played more. -- Katya Chamma
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares. -- John Ruskin
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul -- Al-Masudi
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I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all. -- Merle Haggard

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