Circles Quotes - Page 15

• The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid out in front of me to bless the world.

  Robert G. Allen

  Opportunity, Genius, Done

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• Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts like Baden-Powell, who went on foreign trips disguised as a butterfly collector and regarded spying as sport.

  Clive Ponting

  Sports, Military, Butterfly

  Clive Ponting (1990). “Secrecy in Britain”

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• Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Luxury, Stills

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.118, Bantam Classics

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• The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

  Ameen Rihani

  Religious, Helping, Infidel

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• This...Godless society operates in an extremely efficient manner at least in its higher levels of leadership...It follows a perfectly mapped out strategy. It holds almost complete sway in international organizations, in financial circles, in the field of mass communications; press, cinema, radio and television.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Communication, Organization, Cinema

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• I would say Diddy is the most interesting Twitter-er. I definitely will follow the hip-hop circle now that I have infiltrated the game, just so that I can be aware of my rivals and what my competitors are doing.

  Spencer Pratt

  Games, Interesting, Hip Hop

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The only people that really matter are the people that are in my inner circle.

  Terrell Owens

  People, Matter

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• As I view it, in every family a record should be kept...that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on...each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Children, Couple, Book

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• We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

  Gloria Steinem

  Crazy, Animal, Talking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"

  Pharoahe Monch

  Artist, Ties, Hip Hop

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had the Trafalgar Square riots that the Poll Tax went out in Britain. When people take to the streets and fight the police, it's the one thing the government can't control. You can march round in circles for the rest of your life and they can ignore it, but once you start damaging property and fighting with the police, they can't. Even though they tar you with a brush and say you're a set of bastards, they have to actually tone down what they are doing.

  Alice Nutter

  Fighting, Squares, Government

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• Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I’d call it a party game, except that it’s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

  Andrew Plotkin

  Lying, Party, Simple

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• It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Differences, Doe

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.423

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• Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swiftrolling time. Let us make happy the circle around us,--be useful as much as we may. For that fills up with soft rapture, that dissolves the dark clouds of the day!

  Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

  Wise, Dark, Make Happy

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• There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have no control, an untimely tragedy rattles the teeth of our already shaken confidence. We want to domesticate death, fight it on our own turf, in familiar rooms with shades drawn evenly, top sheets turned back, and a circle of hushed voices closing in.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Death, Fighting, Voice

  Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub

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• The sanctions and travel restrictions would have to be far more comprehensive to be truly painful for [Vladimir] Putin and his inner circle. And the new middle class should also feel the effects of what he is doing. For instance, we should ask those who wish to enter the EU whether they have visited illegally occupied Crimea in the last few months and, if the answer is "yes," deny them a visa.

  Garry Kasparov

  Class, Wish, Lasts

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Men, Feet, Today

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2012). “The Best Tales of Hoffmann”, p.365, Courier Corporation

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• No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Feelings, Matter, Psychologist

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• Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.

  Gordon Brown

  Cutting, Long, Growth

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• Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more stable. I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this.

  Linus Torvalds

  Running, Moving, People

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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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• 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.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Doe, Noble, Woods

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Earth, Pleasure

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• As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Pain, Age, Pleasure

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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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