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Oblique Quotes

Our relations to each other are oblique and casual Picture Quote #1

Then, all censure of a man’s self is oblique praise Picture Quote #1

There is an oblique way of reproof which takes off from the sharpness of it Picture Quote #1

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they’re approaching it from a very oblique angle Picture Quote #1

If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement Picture Quote #1

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom Picture Quote #1

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There’s always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on ‘Game of Thrones.’ Picture Quote #1

Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate Picture Quote #1

Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don’t need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child’s limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing Picture Quote #1

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received Picture Quote #1

A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject? Picture Quote #1

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it Picture Quote #1

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There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering Picture Quote #1

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up Picture Quote #1

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road Picture Quote #1

All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare Picture Quote #1

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view Picture Quote #1

The circling horse was an oblique warning that I would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it Picture Quote #1

I think I’m on an angle. I’m on an oblique angle through all of existence Picture Quote #1

Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light Picture Quote #1

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness Picture Quote #1

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart Picture Quote #1

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Our relations to each other are oblique and casual (Oblique Quotes) Then, all censure of a man’s self is oblique praise (Oblique Quotes) There is an oblique way of reproof which takes off from the sharpness of it (Oblique Quotes) It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they’re approaching it from a very oblique angle. (Oblique Quotes) If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement. (Oblique Quotes) Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom (Oblique Quotes) There’s always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on ‘Game of Thrones.’ (Oblique Quotes) Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate. (Oblique Quotes) Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don’t need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child’s limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing. (Oblique Quotes) Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received (Oblique Quotes) A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject? (Oblique Quotes) The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it (Oblique Quotes) There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering (Oblique Quotes) All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up (Oblique Quotes) Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road (Oblique Quotes) All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare (Oblique Quotes) All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view (Oblique Quotes) The circling horse was an oblique warning that I would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell (Oblique Quotes) Sometimes, waking early before the others, wandering the rooms wrapped in a blanket or drinking my tea in the empty kitchen, I had that most rare of feelings, the sense that the world, so consistently overwhelming and incomprehensible, in fact has an order, oblique as it may seem, and I a place within it (Oblique Quotes) I think I’m on an angle. I’m on an oblique angle through all of existence (Oblique Quotes) Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light (Oblique Quotes) That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness (Oblique Quotes) The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart (Oblique Quotes)