Circle Decreases Quotes

#1. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey.

Ali Babacan

#3. When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about your gown, your hair, your body, and how you present yourself on stage.

Jodi Benson

#4. In this world, headwinds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim).

Herman Melville

#5. Through schools of the world we shall disseminate a new conception of government - one that will embrace all of the collective activities of men; one that will postulate the need for scientific control and operation of economic activities in the interests of all people.

Harold Rugg

#6. I have said to you before that even if Libya and the United States enter into war, God forbid, you will always remain my son, and I have all the love for you as a son, and I do not want your image to change with me.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#7. Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.
[First letter to Pope Celestine (1193)]

Eleanor Of Aquitaine

#8. Like all other modern people, the English are in process of being numbered, labelled, conscripted, 'coordinated'. But the pull of their impulses is in the other direction,

George Orwell

#9. Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

Anne Rice