Circles Quotes - Page 13

• What drives me mad in evangelical circles, including some young Reformed circles, is that there is often a sit-on-the-couch-and-wait-for-God-to-do-something mentality that is unbiblical and wicked. It's probably been true of every generation, but I can see it most clearly in the younger crowd. There seems to be so little war when it comes to sin.

  Matt Chandler

  War, Mad, Waiting

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against them, charge at them, climb over them to show them you have them beat, circle round them, and generally play with them; but clouds can on occasion hold their own against the aviator, and many a pilot has found himself emerging from a cloud not on a level keel.

  Charles Rumney Samson

  Thinking, Clouds, Play

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• I believe that a lot of people in our society today, people who have been hurt and even people who haven't been hurt, get their worth and value from what they do, what they look like, what they own, what kind of job they have, what kind of house they live in, how much money they have, what social circles they're in, what level of education they have, especially even how other people respond to them. They feel better about themselves if everybody is giving a smiling nod to the way they look and all their choices.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Jobs, Believe

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of clowns. My dad is a sociology teacher, so he probably figured that out with her. Those are the things that are exaggerated, that don't give off the signals of humans. You know, if you draw a picture of a circle and ask somebody to feel empathy with the circle, they won't. But if you draw literally two, three dots inside the circle, like two eyes and a nose, you immediately feel empathy.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth, so that's OK with me. If something true came out, I would have to check my circle to see who's talking and possibly make an apology phone call to my parents!

  Eva Mendes

  Lying, Writing, Mean

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.

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• I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

  Bill Frisell

  Play, People, Lucky

  "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter only; and materialism, in its turn, hurries them on with mad impatience to these same delights; such is the fatal circle within which democratic nations are driven round. It were well that they should see the danger and hold back.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Believe, Men, Mad

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.599, Read Books Ltd

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• Dancing makes people feel good whether they're doing it or watching it. It's something I think everybody can relate to whether it's just a simple two-step or a B-boy watching another B-boy go crazy in a circle. It makes you smile and without you even knowing it and it makes you rock to the beat as well.

  Stephen Boss

  Crazy, Boys, Simple

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• When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.

  Curtis Jackson

  People, Different, Cash

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• One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life And Love, Law, Hook

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.91, A&C Black

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• Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Use, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.141, Hackett Publishing

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• I ordered a club sandwich, but I'm not even a member. "I like my sandwiches with three pieces of bread." "Well, so do I!" "Then let's form a club." "OK, but we need some more stipulations. Instead of cutting the sandwich once, let's cut it again. Yes, four triangles, arranged in a circle, and in the middle we will dump chips." "How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?" "I'm for 'em!" "Well, this club is formed."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• It's a privilege to have the career I have, to love every day and be following my passion, the stories that interest me, to remote locations and people. So nothing stops me from that - but yes, it seems redundant in documentary-filmmaker circles today to say the biggest struggle was financing.

  Pietra Brettkelly

  Struggle, Passion, Careers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I would like to believe that crop circles are evidence of visitation. But there have been too many people who have admitted to creating these crop circles, and too many people who have shown how to make one on TV programs, so I have my doubts.

  Michio Kaku

  Believe, Creating, People

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• When you're in @#*!#-ing hell, your forehead can feel a wee bit feverish. (By the way, that's the way my wife actually curses. She doesn't use dirty words; she'll literally say "asterisk, pound sign, exclamation point, the-letter-'A'-with-a-circle-around-it, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk.")

  Paul Reiser

  Funny, Dirty, Exclamation Points

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• In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

  Desmond Tutu

  Sorry, Humility, Order

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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

  Jerry Springer

  Shapes, Ifs

  "We are Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos. Ask us anything". REBRN interview, rebrn.com. January 26, 2015.

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• The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle. There is some myth involved. Some of this attitude has a long history.

  Deborah Meier

  Attitude, Government, Data

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• It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

  Erica Jong

  Mean, Getting Older, Looks

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• I think we've missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro... to catch whatever it is that's forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it's a bit of a long shot.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Bill Bailey: Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Magic

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• If you open up a magazine and there's a photograph of you with a giant red circle around your thigh, like, look at this cellulite, any person - I don't care what you do - would be mortified. It's no wonder people get crazy about it.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Crazy, People, Giants

  "Scarlett Johansson's in Love! (but not with this guy)". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.glamour.com. September 28, 2009.

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• I am thoughtful about introducing terms that tend to be in circulation primarily in academic circles. "Homonormativity" and "homonationalism" are by no means solely academic terms, and in fact circulate in important ways in many activist circles, but in general I find them to be terms that most people I meet are not familiar with.

  Dean Spade

  Mean, Thoughtful, People

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify the poisons. So indeed, the generative idea is in the crux of this practice and of my propensity toward poetry, which is a practice of the imagination.

  Anne Waldman

  Compassion, Practice, Ideas

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?

  James C. Collins

  New Year, Business, Years

  "Best new year's resolution? A 'stop doing' list" by James C. Collins, www.jimcollins.com. December 30, 2003.

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