Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.
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Related So I'm a square! Well, at least I'm not a square peg in a round hole. LORETTA YOUNG You can't fit a round peg in a square hole AMERICAN PROVERB I'm a triangular peg in a square and round hole world JIM MCLAUGHLIN You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a round peg in a round hole. The latter is in fo... ELBERT HUBBARD A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just c... PEARL ZHU They say "the taste of the pudding is in the eating," but that doesn't apply to "a square peg in a r... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI You're trying to get the lyrics and melody to coexist. And sometimes you're trying to fit a square p... ANDREW BIRD Unless the hole is MEANT to be square,' I said with a sudden erudition that surprised me, 'in which ... JASPER FFORDE This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'l... PAUL GIAMATTI That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole. MICK RALPHS This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I... PAUL GIAMATTI As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they ... SAM GRAVES Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect ... LINDI ORTEGA You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a... RAY LIOTTA If a square peg doesn’t fit a round hole, neither the peg nor the hole is to blame. Between two pe... JEFFREY BRYANT At 'Vogue,' I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly de... EMILY WEISS We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into
the square hole, the oblong into th... SYDNEY SMITH I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round... ALISON MOYET I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round holes, and t... BISHOP GEORGE BERKELEY You think you're in control, and you're trying to get that square peg in that round hole. Yo... CHERYL LADD To be the square sales peg, start with your title. It’s the first thing people want to know about ... DAN WALDSCHMIDT But if the hole is big enough, the square peg goes through. This is definitely a first-time thing fo... BILLY HURLEY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Carve the peg by looking at the hole KOREAN PROVERB Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues ... CHRISTOPHER POOLE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. If we are to continue to try and force the square pegs of secular democracy and Western culture into... AMIR BUTLER The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. LAURIE ANDERSON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Carve the peg by looking at the hole.' Eddie looked at me blankly and I explained, 'An old Korean sa... ALAN BRENNERT Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit int... FREDRIK BACKMAN If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA Over the years most of my peers had come to hate me—I never understood why. I guess I was just dif... SOL LUCKMAN On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL It is easier to square the circle than to get round a
mathematician. AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN You can peg a lot of the decisions on that caucus. STEVEN MACKINNON She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON Why is ground round sold in a square package? NEIL LECKMAN Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg. ANTHONY TROLLOPE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. DAVID HASSELHOFF He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON You Have Seen the Cure for Cancer Many Times, Even Right Now! So the Problem is Not Finding a Cure, ... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Both these races could well be close. Primaries are hard to peg. CHRIS MOONEY This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do yo... J.K. SIMMONS A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his s... MARK TWAIN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA PEG is the gold standard for making a film or coating that is protein resistant. But it has been dif... ASHUTOSH CHILKOTI How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-ha... C.S. LEWIS Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored. HANNAH GADSBY The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard. DAVID GERROLD Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. My foot peg just clipped him a bit. I'm not worried about his car - it was like, I was a foot peg aw... RYAN REYNOLDS I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I... BOBBY W. MILLER Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women RICHARD BENNER Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. PETE ROSE I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right JULIO DAVILA Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN When you're dealing with people who think that Sponge Bob Square Pants is more important than social... CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. PETE ROSE Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Square meals often make round people. E. JOSEPH COSSMAN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature. DEYTH BANGER The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. BILL WATTERSON The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. DAVID LEE ROTH Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA Most of our newer prototype stations are about 7,200 square feet, and that station is about 3,500 sq... HEATHER DANENHOWER I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitab... WENDY MCCLURE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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SUZANNE COLLINS The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th... SUZANNE COLLINS Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real. SUZANNE COLLINS But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you... SUZANNE COLLINS The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are... SUZANNE COLLINS She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ... SUZANNE COLLINS When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the... SUZANNE COLLINS But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi... SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea... SUZANNE COLLINS He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’... SUZANNE COLLINS But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yea... SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say. "For what? Nothing's... SUZANNE COLLINS It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k... SUZANNE COLLINS If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b... SUZANNE COLLINS Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e... SUZANNE COLLINS Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l... SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right? -Finnick Odair SUZANNE COLLINS I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f... SUZANNE COLLINS I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best." Well, there's no good resp... SUZANNE COLLINS Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say. "It must b... SUZANNE COLLINS Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ... SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it. SUZANNE COLLINS Do you find this...distracting? SUZANNE COLLINS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee... SUZANNE COLLINS Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. SUZANNE COLLINS And if we burn, you burn with us. SUZANNE COLLINS My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. WILKIE COLLINS Destroying things is much easier than making them. SUZANNE COLLINS Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha... SUZANNE COLLINS If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it. SUZANNE COLLINS And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable. SUZANNE COLLINS Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas... SUZANNE COLLINS If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without. SUZANNE COLLINS Is that why you hate me?" I ask. "Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also... SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other. SUZANNE COLLINS