Circles Quotes
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.
When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic.
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.
As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.
Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.
Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.
Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.
Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
I am always cautious about naming the known, as we often forget to hold in regard those whose names will never be known to anyone outside of their close circle.
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
A good eye cream is really important when you are traveling, busy and stressed-that's when the dark puffy circles can get you.
Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?
I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.
My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.
Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.
The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.
The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.
Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and the moon turn, circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the center.
I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.