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Quotes About Triangles

Rationalists, wearing square hats, Think, in square rooms, Looking at the floor, Looking at the ceiling. They confine themselves To right-angled triangles. If they tried rhomboids, Cones, waving lines, ellipses— As, for example, the ellipse of the half-moon— Rationalists would wear sombreros.
~ Wallace Stevens
We may therefore infer—" he writes, "improbable as is the inference—that worms are able by some means to judge which is the best end by which to draw triangles of paper into their burrows.
~ Amy Stewart
I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books, including 'Fraction Fun,' 'Calculator Riddles,' and 'Shape Up!' 'Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons.'
~ David A. Adler
It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?
~ Rob Sheffield
The eight concepts of Bowen theory, in the logical progression that builds on the family as the emotional unit, are: Nuclear Family Emotional System The Differentiation of Self Scale Triangles Cutoff Family Projection Process Multigenerational Transmission Process Sibling Position Societal Emotional Process.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
Triangles are ubiquitous and automatic in emotional systems. They are considered, in Bowen family systems theory, to be the molecule, or basic building block of any system of people—be it the family, an organization, or society itself. The goal is not how to get out of them, however, but rather how to manage oneself in and through them.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
The most common and important triangle that people find when they begin to examine their patterns is the one that was formed between themselves and their two parents or caregivers at birth.
~ Roberta M. Gilbert
Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?
~ Pablo Neruda
Order streamed from Noah in blue triangles and as the pure fury of his classifications rose around him, engulfing his life, they came to be called waves by others, who drowned, a world of them.
~ Anne Carson
If a pattern of triangles keeps repeating, then it is a very strong message, and we need to listen to what it is trying to tell us.
~ Liz Greene
She was wearing a dark-red swimsuit consisting of two small triangles up above and a mere suggestion of something down below. If she took everything off, Dill thought, she would look a lot less naked.
~ Ross Thomas
Yep, I have to admit that isosceles triangles make me feel hormonal.
~ Sherman Alexie
Most mathematics deals with static objects such as circles and triangles and numbers. But the great universe out there, not made by us, is in a constant state of what Newton called flux. At every microsecond it changes magically into something different. Calculus is the mathematics of change.
~ Martin Gardner
As Montesquieu wrote, "If triangles had a god they would give him three sides.") For
~ Steven Pinker
Como escribió Montesquieu: «Si los triángulos tuvieran un dios, le darían tres lados».)
~ Steven Pinker
I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
~ Rachel Bilson
It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?
~ Rob Sheffield
The shape she loved was a triangle. Always black. Mauma put black triangles on about every quilt she sewed.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
It was a beautiful blue afternoon, and as the day cooled, the port was coming to life. Venus' breath had whipped up the sea beyond the river mouth and it was a deep sapphire colour. The sails of the ships moving to and fro on the water made triangles of white and yellow against the blue.
~ Caroline Lawrence
The beams and bridges cut the light on the ground into little triangles and the rails run round
~ Suzanne Vega
fueron capaces de señalar que si los triángulos tuvieran dioses, sus dioses tendrían tres lados
~ Christopher Hitchens
All of us are vulnerable to intense, non-productive angry reactions in our current relationships if we do not deal openly and directly with emotional issues from our first family—in particular, losses and cutoffs. If we do not observe and understand how our triangles operate, our anger can keep us stuck in the past, rather than serving as an incentive and guide to form more productive relationship patterns for the future.
~ Harriet Lerner
Pythagoras." "Pih-who?" "He invented triangles.
~ Jim Butcher
Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore solids, and solids are contained in planes, and plane rectilinear figures are made up of triangles.
~ Plato