56 Perimeter Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous perimeter quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational perimeter quotes. Hopefully, these perimeter quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your perimeter knowledge!

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Famous Perimeter Quotes

We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem! — Chesty Puller

Good fences make good neighbors. - Robert Frost

Good fences make good neighbors. — Robert Frost

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle. — Mark Twain

Extracurricular Parallel to none I am perpendicular — Nicki Minaj

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Borders are important, but they don't stop geography. — Tim Marshall

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Being a square keeps you from going around in circles. — J. Vernon McGee

Art is a line around your thoughts. - Gustav Klimt

Art is a line around your thoughts. — Gustav Klimt

Place is security, space is freedom. - Yi-Fu Tuan

Place is security, space is freedom. — Yi-Fu Tuan

The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines — Peter Senge

Who runs in circles never gets far. - Thornton Burgess

Who runs in circles never gets far. — Thornton Burgess

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Let our hearts touch far horizons. Let our love know no borders, Draw the Circles wide until, No one stands alone. — Gordon Lightfoot

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time! — Chesty Puller

Short Perimeter Quotes

  • The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater. — Archimedes
  • Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate. — Jim Morrison
  • As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness. — Albert Einstein
  • Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major. — Garth Nix
  • Perimeter defense may not matter if the enemy is inside the gates. — Robert Mueller
  • I'm a perimeter player. I'm more like a Ray Allen. — Malcolm Subban

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More Perimeter Quotes

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred. — Mario Botta

When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside. — Bobby Knight

You get some sleep, Abigail," Townsend told her. "I'll keep watch." "That's very gracious of you, but being that we're on an airplane..." Even after the plane took off, they kept debating security perimeters and protocols. I'm pretty sure they argued for forty-five minutes about where the best place for cappuccino was near the Colosseum. — Ally Carter

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world. — Eli Pariser

Hopes were wallflowers. Hopes hugged the perimeter of a dance floor in your brain, tugging at their party lace, all perfume and hems and doomed expectation. They fanned their dance cards, these guests that pressed against the walls of your heart. — Karen Russell

That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter. — Bill Laimbeer

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter. — Warren Buffett

I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write. — Jane Hirshfield

A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence. — Jane Jacobs

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view. — Matt Ridley

I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundaries. — Mahershala Ali

Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen. — Amber Benson

Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail. — Mark Dunn

From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space. — Kenneth Frampton

The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus. — Dean Acheson

Don't be a victim. Be busy with your horse so you stay out of trouble - otherwise, trouble will come and find you”, Brannaman would say. “Be assertive but don't be aggressive, if you are aggressive you'll make the horse flighty. The horse needs perimeters like anyone else. Give them guidance, support, rules. The same rules. Don't change the game. Don't let them have excuses just cause of their past. And love them. — Buck Brannaman

I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms. — Denise Duhamel

I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body, so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started. — Lucy McRae

We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter. — Isaac Yeffet

I was really kind of miserable with myself personally and all of the things that you can be creatively, until someone said - and I don't know what about it made it click at this specific time - but they said, "You're not 18 anymore, and you're not writing songs in your old bedroom. It's work. You should get up every day and set a perimeter of time and start compartmentalizing your life." — Sarah Jaffe

We must recognize that this massive economic bloc that's emerging in North America cannot be accomplished unilaterally. It must be accomplished in partnership with Mexico and Canada. And we have to work together to secure the continent in order to keep dangerous people and dangerous things out and strengthen perimeter security on a continental basis. — Alan Bersin

If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter. — Warren Buffett

Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups. — Jeanne Elium

Any time you add something to your game, you still have to find ways to improve, so I'm still studying the game and trying to find out ways to increase how we use me on the floor. You're not being complacent, not falling back and floating around the perimeter too much, figuring out when to attack. I'm trying to find that balance between attacking and spotting up and things like that. — Blake Griffin

Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries? — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up. ...You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out. — Nikki Gemmell

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge. — David Brin

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