Circles Quotes

I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin.

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.

What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.

The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.

As you get older, then you finally come back around full circle when you don't give a s - anymore and you decide I'm going to just tell the truth to everybody. I don't give a s - if anybody likes me.

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.

If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

I'm in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape.

In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.

Most things in music go full circle eventually.

Wander into the center of the circle of wonder.

My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too.

There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

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.

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

You know you drank too much the night before when you wake up with crop circles in your pubes.

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.

If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.

If you want to upgrade your circle of influence, it begins with upgrading yourself.

When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn't, so he nailed down my other foot!

Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.

Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.

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