Circles Quotes - Page 17

• If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Fashion, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.69

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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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• To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Mean, Birth Defects

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• 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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• The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Eggs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

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• You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal
  in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.

  Blaise Pascal

  Kings, Men, Desire

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.387, Cosimo, Inc.

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• On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

  Daniel Webster

  Morning, Military, Power

  Speech in the Senate on the President's Protest, 7 May 1834

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• If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.

  John Howard

  Running, Iraq, Victory

  Nine Network TV interview, February 11, 2007.

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• My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

  Michael Caine

  Actors, Circle Of Friends, Available

  "Q & A: Oscar-Winning Michael Caine Asks “Is Anybody There?”". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 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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• I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week.

  Billie Jean King

  Fun, Children, Team

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• There has to be solidarity among the artists, songwriters and all the creative forces within that circle in order for the necessary changes to take place and for each person to get what is rightfully due.

  Oleta Adams

  Artist, Order, Creative

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• Sadly most films only get exposure if they win an award or were in a festival, which is really difficult because those things cost money! Submitting your film to a festival or campaigning for an Oscar or a Golden Globe is very expensive. Most people don't know that, but all those events require a lot of money. If you have a small independent film, it's very hard to get the attention of people in those circles.

  Kate del Castillo

  Independent, Winning, Awards

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Zen enriches no one. There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while in the place where it is thought to be. But they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the "nothing," the "no-body" that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey.

  Thomas Merton

  Bird, May, Gone

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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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• Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Land, Miracle

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.

  Steven Wright

  Dog, Cat, Eye

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• Others are affected by what I am, and say, and do. So that a single act of mine may spread and spread in widening circles, through a nation or humanity. Through my vice I intensify the taint of vice throughout the universe. Through my misery I make multitudes sad. On the other hand, every development of my virtue makes me an ampler blessing to my race. Every new truth that I gain makes me a brighter light to humanity.

  William Ellery Channing

  Blessing, Light, Race

  William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

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• It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question that, in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands and might interfere more habitually and decidedly with the circle of private interests than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Character, Men, Hands

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.760, Read Books Ltd

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Art, Atheist, Philosophy

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• At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Country, Struggle, Dark

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

  Terrell Owens

  People, Matter

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