Circles Quotes

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.

I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on a circle, where they inevitably meet in their extremity.

The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

At last, the wheel comes full circle

The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans friends and confidantes. I think I need to come up with a code name for this circle.

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It's all pretty extraordinary.

Medicine, likewise, because it deals with things, has always been for our serener circles a Cinderella, blooming maid as happily as she has grown nevertheless.

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.

The oldest form of the Choral Dance is the circle. Even the chimpanzees dance in a circle, and people of every continent still do it.

Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

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

I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.

As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move!

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.

As we have seen so clearly demonstrated in Europe, hate breeds hate and the vicious circle revolves with all its attending madness.

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference...

Not all teachers utilize both forms of light.In certain circles, those teachers who can manifest the light of samadhi but not the mystical light have put down the mystical light.

Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.

I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

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.

His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval.

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles.

There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it."

The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.

It's really nice when life comes full circle and you get to work with people four years down the line.

If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.