Circles Quotes - Page 11

• A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mind, Needs, World

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• To me, love, spirituality and life are all the same thing. To me they're all about honoring the circle, and they're just different ways of defining the same understanding. Our society as a whole, because we have placed our love for money above our love for life, has devalued the sacred and devalued love.

  Julia Hill

  Love, God, Understanding

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• The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Patriotic, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Mazes, Way, Easier

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• The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

  Stephen King

  Burning, Moisture, Coins

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.788, Simon and Schuster

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• Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

  Zadie Smith

  Drawing, Attention, Should

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, when raised, could never be kept within the magic circle.

  Richard Whately

  Magic, Stories, Fancy

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.53

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• The more you remember, the more you are able to experience, the more you know, so to speak. And the more you know, the more you remember. It is a circle... But remember, none of it has been exactly a drudge. I mean, you've loved all of it! Every last minute! Oh, it's delicious, this thing called life! It's a scrumptious experience, no?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Mean

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively simple problems -- the determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the circumference of a circle -- revealed the existence of new mathematical beings for which no place could be found within the rational domain.

  David van Dantzig

  Determination, Simple, Squares

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• A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
  Where light pushes through;
  A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
  A dip to the water.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Air, Bridges, Light

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.50, Courier Dover Publications

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• If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were to withdraw their contributions to these objects, and give them where they are more needed, to their advancement of their own sex in useful learning, the next generation might furnish sufficient proof, that in intelligence and ability to master the whole circle of sciences, woman is not inferior to man.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Sex, Men, Giving

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.120

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• The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Sailing

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.

  Tracy Thompson

  Ivy, Anxiety, Pulse

  Tracy Thompson (2014). “The Beast: A Journey Through Depression”, p.43, Diversion Books

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

  Rene Thom

  Lying, Taught Us, Differences

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• Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.

  Thomas Browne

  Body, Lines, Limits

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.343

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• There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

  Thomas Browne

  Solitude, Said

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.443

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• There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man standing alongside the road, shouts, «Where are you going?» and the first man replies, «I don't know! Ask the horse!» This is also our story. We are riding a horse, and we don't know where we are going and we can't stop. The horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless.

  Nhat Hanh

  Horse, Men, Important

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.24, Harmony

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• Talking things over has its place in an organization [but] so-called conferences are being grossly overdone. One executive stops at the desk of another to tell him, perhaps, about the wonderful score he made at golf on Saturday afternoon. This chin-chin immediately becomes a conference, and neither the office boy nor the telephone operator must disturb either gentleman. More idle gossip is indulged in at many business conferences these days than an old wives' sewing circle would be guilty of.

  B. C. Forbes

  Golf, Boys, Talking

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• She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.

  Jan Struther

  Women, Two, Perfection

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• ... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.

  Lazare Carnot

  Beautiful, Ideas, Rivers

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• To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Envy, Bitter, Traveler

  "Night Lights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark". Book by Phyllis Grissim-Theroux, 1987.

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

  Czeslaw Milosz

  World, Bees, Fisherman

  Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.54, Penguin UK

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• The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Believe, Technology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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• Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.

  James A. Garfield

  Sky, Shining, Heaven

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