Circles Quotes - Page 26

• He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

  Terry Pratchett

  Enemy, Moved On, Centre

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• Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

  Danny Kaye

  Love, Heart, Forever

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• Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

  Vladimir Lenin

  Independent, Curves, Class

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• Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

  Richard Matheson

  Pain, People, Forever

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• I survive at the edge of friends circles.

  Holly Black

  Edges

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Taken, Full Circle, Unbroken

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• Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Pain, Evil, Casts

  Yasmine Galenorn (2011). “Blood Wyne: An Otherworld Novel”, p.77, Penguin

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• No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the future anymore?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Children, Dying, Alive

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 20, 2011

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• If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

  John Stott

  Order, May, Worship

  John Stott (1992). “The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening”

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• Who runs in circles never gets far.

  Thornton Burgess

  Running, Running In Circles

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• Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.

  Bill W.

  Simple, Men, Kitchen

  Bill W. (2013). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Real, Lying

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• The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Compassion, Self

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 17, 2013

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• You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

  T. D. Jakes

  Intimate Relationships, People, Looks

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• The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Three, Synthesis, Eccentric

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)”, p.113, Delphi Classics

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• We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of each other's arms, and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a dance, and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance, to a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it except in fragments.

  Wendell Berry

  Moving, Hands, Ears

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.10, Counterpoint Press

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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

  Alexander Smith

  Autumn, Years, October

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Men, Civilization

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Library, Looks

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.293, Melville House

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• If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving nothing superior to His divinity, then also was there the Father's Son, having in the Father a timeless beginning, like the sun's great circle of overwhelming clear light.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Father, Son

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• India - a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India - at least in the circles I moved in - it's natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world.

  Erin Lokitz

  Beautiful, Travel, Moving

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• I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Empty Rooms, Feelings

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• I don't dance, But here I am
  Spinning you around and around in circles
  It Ain't my style, but I don't care
  I'd do anything with you anywhere
  Yes, you got me in the palm of your hand
  Cause, I don't dance.

  Lee Brice

  Hands, Here I Am, Style

  Song: I Don't Dance, 2014

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• We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.

  Albert Einstein

  Jobs, Thinking, Compassion

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• To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

  Richard Koch

  Ideas, Social, Contact

  Richard Koch, Greg Lockwood (2010). “Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links”, p.28, W. W. Norton & Company

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