Quotes about circles
circles air water
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. Leonardo da Vinci
circles people minorities
It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities. Naguib Mahfouz
circles want steps
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. R. Buckminster Fuller
circles corners
I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle. Harry Shum, Jr.
circles understanding chaos
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. Ken Wilber
circles people literature
There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma. Ken Kesey
circles people friendly
Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried. Kim Edwards
circles pet tilt
I pushed him away, catching Lee's awe that I was not only standing with a demon outside a circle, but that Al was treating me like an equal. Or maybe a favorite pet, I amended as Al caught me when I started to tilt. Kim Harrison
circles realizing life-is
I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle. Oprah Winfrey
circles voice squares
As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood. Oliver Goldsmith
circles luxury want
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
circles two delicacy
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories. Mark Twain
circles problem reason
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle. Honore de Balzac
circles perfect debt
The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started. Jay Leno
circles forgiving wire
I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on. Ethan Hawke
circles goes money
The money just goes around in circles anyway. We'd like to have it all untangled, particularly the retroactivity feature." ()
circles rapture deals
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle. Gertrude Stein
circles space vision
Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of non-possessive love - which is the granting to any other and all others that total space wherein each may grow and soar to his own freely-selected, full potential - reaching out to one another subject-to-SUBJECT, becomes for the first time in history the true working model of a Sharing Consensus! Harry Hay
circles decision political
I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems. Hans Frank
circles progress use
No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence. Gordon B. Hinckley
circles luxury stills
Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown. Henry David Thoreau
circles world weapons
Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament. Jacques Chirac
circles return chance
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound. Jacques Derrida
circles bars opinion
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles. Evelyn Waugh
circles vicious turns
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious. Eugene Ionesco
circles may boundaries
We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle. Ernst Junger
circles people film
I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave. Jacqueline Bisset
circles lotuses full-circle
I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself. Coming full circle is a celebration of freedom and happiness because that's what [my new album] 'Lotus' is representing. I'm embracing everything that I've grown to be and learned to be. Christina Aguilera
circles passing evidence
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
circles passing-it passing
...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...
circles pieces common-experience
It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right. Christopher Alexander
circles people trying
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em. George Strait
circles ideas forever
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more. George Orwell