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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? Alain de Botton
She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg, wife peg, side by side. Facing the road and not looking at each other; for why would they need to, really, having gone beyond the visible surface long ago. No hope of admiring gazes anymore, no chance of unremitting adoration. Nothing left to show but their plain, true, homely, interior selves, which were actually much richer anyhow. Anne Tyler
Winston Churchill quote: "Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable."
Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable. Winston Churchill
O bid me mount and sail up there. Amid the cloudy wrack, For Peg and Meg and Paris' love. That had so straight a back, Are gone away, and some that stay. Have changed their silk for sack. William Butler Yeats
Henry Ward Beecher quote: "All words are pegs to hang ideas on."
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. Henry Ward Beecher
A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. but all that lay there was a splintered peg and a twisted length of wire. Richard Adams
Hazel used his trick. "They got no starfish there?"They got no ocean there" said Doc."Oh!" said Hazel and he cast frantically about for a peg to hang a new question on. He hated to have a conversation die out like this. He wasn't quick enough. While he was looking for a question Doc asked one. Hazel hated that, it meant casting about in his mind for an answer and casting about in Hazel's mind was like wandering alone in a deserted museum. Hazel's mind was choked with uncataloged exhibits. ... John Steinbeck
In those days you could identify a person's nationality by smell. Lying on her back with eyes closed, Desdemona could detect the telltale oniony aroma of a Hungarian woman on her right, and the raw-meat smell of an Armenian on her left. (And they, in turn, could peg Desdemona as a Hellene by her aroma of garlic and yogurt.) Jeffrey Eugenides
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents. Aldous Huxley
You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are. Benjamin Hoff
On the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unknown. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings. Haruki Murakami
Paul Giamatti quote: "This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit...."
This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it. Paul Giamatti
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?' Joe DiMaggio
Sly Stone quote: "Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg."
Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg. Sly Stone
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news. Richard Dawkins

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