Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Czeslaw Milosz

On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.

Dorothy Thompson

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

Donald Sutherland

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

Dorothy Day

What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

Anais Nin

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Anna Freud

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Alexandra Fuller

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.

So far, we've been hitting to circles on the ground, so it's really difficult to tell what is happening at this point, but so far the kids seem to be doing well.

Bill Smith

Mr. Ross moves in different circles than coal miners. That's been evident since he formed ICG, and it remains evident today.

Susan B. Anthony

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

Vicente Fox

If we keep wasting time, if we keep running in circles ... we will keep having more poverty,

Barton Gellman

The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

William Wordsworth

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

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

Abdullah Gul

Once Turkey enters in the European Union, all these circles will also see themselves, one way or another, represented within the EU.

Tom Danielson

It's not an easy course at all. There are all kinds of bumps, traffic circles and hard corners that will make it a tense race, ... The climbs are harder than people think and it's not sure it will all just come down to a sprint.

Dan Millman

Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it ...

We'd be running in circles for the next 10 years if we tried to do everything that people have suggested. We are looking at everything, but it would be irresponsible for me to stand here and say we are going to do everything that was suggested. It's just not realistic.

Curtis Jackson

When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.

Confucius

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

Cyndi Lauper

Everything does go in a circle.

Craig Charles

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

There has never really been any threat of expulsion, just the hype in some international circles to try and frighten us. The motion would require 85 percent of the total votes.

Freya Stark

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

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.

Mitch Hedberg

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi 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.

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.