Corner Quotes

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. (Aldous Huxley)
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. View quote
A. A. Milne
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. View quote
Carl Sagan
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it. View quote
Emma Thompson
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. View quote
Albert Camus
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. View quote
Clarence Darrow
In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly. View quote
William James
I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up. View quote
Nicki Minaj
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. (Edmund Burke)
God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. View quote
Fernand Braudel
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. View quote
Eric Idle
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. View quote
Michael Palin
Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it. View quote
Anton LaVey
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. View quote
Agatha Christie
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be. View quote
William Faulkner
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. (Carl Sagan)
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for 'the average programmer', you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean. View quote
James Henry Breasted