#square

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#must #placed #square #white

LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#politicians #psychedelics #squares #straights #behavior

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#assumptions #cannot #contrary #existence #fact

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#deep #events #impression #made #many

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. ↗

— Michael Korda

#degree #desire #directly #directly proportional #face

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#certain #certain way #drape #fabric #feel

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#church #eighteen #establish #heart #holy

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. ↗

— Francis Wright

#actions #belief #consequences #deduce #first

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#go #i #mom #never #new

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#chinese #congress #day #ensure #forget