Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howie Mandel

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

Jacques Chirac

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

Jacques Derrida

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

Harry Shum, Jr.

I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

Honore de Balzac

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

Ida Tarbell

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

Cory Doctorow

if I want to enable my readers push copies to their friends, and they're in circles like Slashdot, Wired, Boing Boing, who never meet face to face, just online, well i need to give it to them in a suitable format so they can do whatever they need to do with it. SMS, MMS, Email, FTP, Cut and Paste, P2P, all are valid.

Gloria Steinem

We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

Gloria Steinem

If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

Gunnar Myrdal

In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion.

He's instantly recognizable in financial circles and has international stature.

William Wallace

Incompetence is often highly regarded in governmental circles.

Robert Jordan

The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.

Neale Donald Walsch

It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

Jonathan Swift

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

Friedrich Schiller

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

It?s nice to be back in the winner?s circle again.

It's so much better than walking around the nursing circle trying to locate someone all the time. They're so efficient, it's hard to remember what it was like when we didn't have them.

Take it double time. Four circles left, four circles right.

It's incredibly restorative. A lot of people find great solace in gardening. It teaches self-worth, patience, reliance, persistence. It teaches us the circle of life. It teaches us that things die, and from that new things come.

It's hysterical to watch, as long as you're out of range, ... When they get excited they run around in circles doing one handstand after another.

It was losing everything, but the financial loss was least significant. I was walking in circles in a psychiatric hospital in a depression.

Oh, man, I didn't have a clue about special teams. From not having any knowledge to actually playing on pretty much all of them is pretty much a full circle for me.

Karl Marx

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Karl Marx

The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.

P.M. Forni

If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.

Ken Wilber

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

William Wordsworth

Small circles glittering idly in the moon,/ Until they melted all into one track/ Of sparkling light.

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Pete Seeger

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

Peace Pilgrim

Visualize a golden light within you and spread it out. First to those about you - your circle of friends and relatives - and then gradually to the world. Keep on visualizing God's golden light surrounding our earth.