Top 100 Circling Quotes
#1. Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law ... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. I looked back all the time, too much, too often. Like Rose, I would be circling my mother the rest of my life.
Bich Minh Nguyen
#3. I welcomed the circling sharks but they avoided me as if knowing I preferred their teeth to the chains around my neck my waist my ankles
Toni Morrison
#4. It's funny to think that Anson and I were here, in this same place, together all that time ago, and now here we are again. It makes me feel good, makes me feel that perhaps everything doesn't just disappear, that some things are circling back, taking the long way, but circling back towards me.
Helen Humphreys
#5. But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the extra moon that is circling the earth unbeknownst to science.
Lorrie Moore
#6. The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#7. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#8. Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to what a fighter feels after jabbing and circling and getting hit, when suddenly there's an opening, and bang! Right on the button. It's a fantastic feeling.
William Klein
#9. I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.
Kali Hawk
#10. If you keep circling the promise, God will ultimately deliver on it.
Mark Batterson
#11. Once told me this thing about brain chemistry, the nub of it being that when you're feeling good, you can't ever imagine feeling bad again. And when you're feeling bad, it's impossible to imagine a time when you won't be circling the drain.
James Patterson
#12. The tabloid that said that I dressed up as a medieval, like a sexy medieval something and that upset me more than the dating rumors that have been circling around that were fake. If somebody thinks I'm going to dress sexy to a costume party, they have another thing coming.
Jennifer Lawrence
#13. His lips follow a trail from my mouth to my jaw, down to my throat. As he nuzzles, he suckles, nips my skin before circling back to my mouth to taste me, ravage me, own me.
Magda Alexander
#14. My patchwork life: quiet Sunday, coffee on Grace's breath, the unfamiliar landscape of the lumpy new scar on my arm, the dangerous smell of snow in the air. Two different worlds circling each other, getting closer and closer, knotting together in ways I'd never imagined.
Maggie Stiefvater
#15. It feels like we're circling something here, like maybe we both know where this is headed. Like maybe we sort of always have.
Katie Cotugno
#16. Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
William Gibson
#17. Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
Arthur C. Clarke
#18. We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first.
Tan Twan Eng
#19. He understands now why kisses in movies are filmed the way they are, with the camera endlessly circling, circling: the ground is unsteady under his.
Cassandra Clare
#20. Fate had a weird way of circling back over paths that were meant to cross.
Gail McHugh
#21. The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.
Murray Gell-Mann
#22. I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.
Katie Price
#23. Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.
John Steinbeck
#24. Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.
Don King
#25. I'm the ugly truth, and he's a pretty lie, and we're always, always circling each other.
Laura Thalassa
#26. Because no matter how far you may travel, you are what you are, and even when you are flying at thrilling new heights, circling the sun and thinking you belong in the halo of that perfect golden light, you do not. The wings always melt, and you always crash-land in your same old self.
Jeff Lindsay
#27. Everyone else seemed to be circling their desired careers, not inhabiting them yet.
Meg Wolitzer
#28. These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they're circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home.
Tania James
#29. She pushed Adam firmly back, once and for all, and turned to face the demon, the crescent moon of the scythe's blade circling over her head as a vane signals a change in the weather.
The wind was finally blowing her way.
Erin Kellison
#30. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.
Mark Batterson
#31. I felt alone on a Serengeti plain with a cheetah circling.
C.D. Reiss
#32. Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a bigger boat. Awestruck, they all view the full-sized, massive shark circling the boat. Quint estimates it is 25 feet long: Three tons of him.
Roy Scheider
#33. So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars ... it just feels like there's a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we're familiar with.
Brian Greene
#34. I do not know why you two are circling each other like stars. It is not my cosmic dance. But I do know that you come asking for one another, when only a few strides and a handful of stairs divide you.
V.E Schwab
#35. Without work, without direction, his thoughts were like a hamster on a wheel, circling and dancing with no destination and no possibility of arrival. With
Val McDermid
#36. Until that hungry black god eats me up. Now I spend the centuries circling into it like a penny in one of those coin spirals at an arcade;
Exurb1a
#37. It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.
Kathy Acker
#38. Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
Charles Dickens
#39. Bella, I love you, kid, he said in case she could hear. Fear brushed the walls of his chest, circling inside him like a bat in a house. Then he got hold of it. He wanted to get something for her, anything, but he did not want her to feel him let go of her hand.
Thomas Harris
#40. Galen glanced at the peregrine circling them. He couldn't shake the feeling that the falcon and Logan's need to uncover who was behind the magic controlling the bird just might be the tipping point that caused Logan to succumb to the darkness.
Donna Grant
#41. I felt rippling wheat field and crows circling within me. I was a vase of sunflowers ready to spit seeds like weapons at the world. I understood how a man could be mad enough to slice off his own ear, just to get back the person he loved most in the world.
Jodi Baker
#42. Too easy to conclude, with a private sneer, that men were simple. Granted, had they been strangers, they might well be circling and sniffing each other's anuses right now.
Steven Erikson
#43. At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just as if circling a temple, then bow to the Lord.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#44. The silence joined the words we always left unspoken. Circling around and around until I was sure, the quiet would slice me open.-Lo Preston-The Wild Hunt
Ashley Jeffery
#45. I was still tired, and this day had started out on a bizarre note and was circling the drain of strange.
Penny Reid
#46. With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#47. Technology made everything better for a while and now it seems life is circling back around to the dark ages.
Patricia Cornwell
#48. I said, "Show me what to do."
He said, Die.
I said, "The water has turned into oil."
He said, Die.
I said, "I will become a butterfly
circling around your light."
He said, Die.
Rumi
#49. Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.
Steven Pressfield
#50. Now the kids are portrayed as dirty when they talk to an agent, a shoe guy, some hanger-on. Well, it's only natural that people are circling them - there are millions of dollars involved.
Sonny Vaccaro
#51. Our little satellite reached Mars because it was called MOM. If it was called DAD, it would still be circling the Earth, lost, but not willing to ask for directions.
Twinkle Khanna
#52. The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew.
Thomm Quackenbush
#53. No one we knew ever believed that there was anything between us but the sex and some virulent allure, my dirty dishwater circling the drain of you. Not a pretty comparison but maybe it's the best we'll ever deserve, either of us.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#54. A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.
Lin Yutang
#55. God, I'm not just in the neighbourhood of pathetic, I'm circling the block.
Qwen Salsbury
#56. Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.
Sara Donati
#57. I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.
John Hiatt
#59. Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
Philip Larkin
#60. Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like
A star new-born that drops into its place
And which, once circling in its placid round,
Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
James Russell Lowell
#61. Never had Safi seen so many furled sails. Or circling sea gulls.
Cursed birds.
Susan Dennard
#62. The night was drawing in, and the house felt more and more like a glass cage, blasting its light blindly out into the dusk, like a lantern in the dark. I imagined a thousand moths circling and shivering, drawn inexorably to its glow, only to perish against the cold inhospitable glass.
Ruth Ware
#63. Time isn't running out. It's not even real," he said, and I knew I had lost him - he was lost, circling in his own mind. "It's just a measure of distance we made up to understand things. Like an inch. Or a mile.
Megan Miranda
#64. I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#65. Ours is a life of constant reruns. We're always circling back to where we'd we started, then starting all over again. Even if we don't run extra laps that day, we surely will come back for more of the same another day soon.
Joe Henderson
#66. You are no star, Gabby. You're the sky. The rest of us are just circling your orbit.
Kelly Moran
#67. A lot of times, you're circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and it doesn't always have to be in person.
Nick Kroll
#68. If Eastlake High School were the universe, I would be one of the moons circling Planet Emma, constantly hidden by her shadow, and glad to be there. Nash Hudson would be one of the stars: too bright to look at, too hot to touch and at the center of his own solar system.
Rachel Vincent
#69. Even as a child, Alma innately comprehended that there were two types of silent men in the world: one type was meek and deferential; the other type was Dick Yancey. His eyes were a pair of slowly circling sharks, and as he stared at Alma now, those eyes were clearly saying: "Bring the rum.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#70. Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#71. In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger.
Rick Rubin
#72. I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps, I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His Day is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe
#73. Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.
Theodore Roosevelt
#74. I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.
Alice Cary
#75. At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Mark Batterson
#76. Walk to the well.
Turn as the earth and the moon turn,
circling what they love.
Whatever circles comes from the center.
Rumi
#77. When you say, "I'll serve, as long as I'm getting benefits from it," that's not actually serving people; it's serving yourself through them. That's not circling them, orbiting around them; it's using them, getting them to orbit around you.
Timothy J. Keller
#78. I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.
John Gregory Dunne
#79. Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it
Yuri Gagarin
#80. Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain'
Richard Kauffmann
#81. George had sent him a handful of postcards over the last two months. The front of each of them had borne a photograph of the idyllic Scottish countryside. And on the back, a series of messages circling a single theme:
Bored.
So bored.
Kill me now.
Too late, already dead.
Cassandra Clare
#82. You okay, chuck?
I nodded, or tried to, anyway. To be honest, I was pretty confused and disorientated. The three thoughts circling round my head were How was I going to get to my toilet now?, Oh my God, I can see Evan's cock! and Did Rai just say he wanted untying?
Josephine Myles
#83. Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.
Leonard Susskind
#84. Sometimes I have a weird dream that we're all relatively brief sparks of consciousness that live on a rock circling a ball of fire.
Iain S. Thomas
#85. Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very loudly that the piece has been ruined), since it corresponds perfectly to Aschenbach's yearnings and to his circling walks around Venice.
Philip Kitcher
#86. One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
Takeshi Kitano
#87. Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.
Richard Powers
#88. I noted that he had a new type of sandal to go with his clothes - they had a special strap circling the big toe, and another for the rest of the toes. Around the soles, gilded lotuses were painted directly on the leather.
Margaret George
#89. Deer in headlights.
Cornered suspect.
Mouse in the open, owls circling.
Kathy Reichs
#90. I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]
Rainer Maria Rilke
#91. The arc of circling bodies is determined by the length of their tether, said the judge. Moons,coins,men.
Cormac McCarthy
#92. From her hiding place in the brush, a young girl watched, her eyes wide with curiosity. There was a burning smell coming from the pit where flames crackled, sending sparks shooting high. Odd shapes had been carved in the trunks of the circling trees. The
Nora Roberts
#93. Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.
Jim Brosnan
#94. Reporters of each channel smudging into each other to get that exclusive sound byte. It looked like BEST bus passengers circling the conductor to buy tickets.
Aditya Magal
#95. What happened to you?" Seth was out of his chair and circling her. "You look like Britney Spears, back when she was dating backup dancers and walking around gas stations barefoot.
Rainbow Rowell
#96. God, O God, where art thou? Thou art as distant to me as the lady combing rice in the Yunnan Province of China or a piece of floating space debris circling Pegasi. In this feeling-dead world of post traumatic stress, skepticism is king, queen, and court jester.
Chila Woychik
#97. A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water
Kate Chopin
#98. Most of us don't get what we want because we don't know what we want. Here's our secondary problem: Most of us don't get what we want because we quit circling.
Mark Batterson
#99. Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#100. I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.
Rainer Maria Rilke
