Top 100 Quotes About Circles
#1. A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out.
Robert Frost
#2. Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )
Italo Calvino
#3. There are no limits to starting over. That's why the sun rises every day. Unless you're running in circles and then the outcome never changes.
Karen White
#5. 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
#6. Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Audre Lorde
#7. For thousands of years we have gathered in circle
around fires, around bodies, around altars
because we can't do this alone.
Wayne Muller
#8. Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
Juvenal
#9. Hey!" Jason yelled, flying circles around her. "I have a question about my deductibles!" "What?" the statue cried. "Hygeia!" Piper shouted. "I need an invoice submitted to Medicare!" "No, please!
Rick Riordan
#10. Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.
Peter M. Senge
#11. Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, "a gentleman couldn't go into politics." But,
Edith Wharton
#12. Love, like energy, never dies. You lose people only in the moment. But time is a long road that circles back. At some point the missing turns into love and returns.
M.J. Rose
#13. All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.
Heather Marsh
#14. That I was born to this circle - I am blessed. That I choose to stand in this circle - I am proud.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#15. In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority for any thinking person.
Emily Matchar
#16. The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.
Charles Dudley Warner
#17. The anxiety was like poison ivy. It took nothing to set off that mental itch-a chance remark, remembering an event from the day before-but once it started I found it impossible to stop the cycle. My thoughts twisted in a circle, my pulse hammered, I couldn't concentrate.
Tracy Thompson
#18. Against the wounded sky, a lone angel circles above us. No, not an angel. Light glints off curved metal on one of the edges of his wings. They are not shaped like a bird's wings. It's a giant bat-wing shape. My heart speeds up with my need to shout out to him. Could
Susan Ee
#19. A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.
Steve Jobs
#20. Could he be walking in circles? Maybe he would just walk and walk and walk until the warmers and the candy bars ran out and then sit down and never get up again.
Neil Gaiman
#21. One hand traced small circles against my back, and I pressed closer to him, listening to his heartbeat. "I used to think that having nothing to live for made you a better fighter," he murmured. "Turns out I was wrong on a lot of fronts.
Julie Kagawa
#22. Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'
Edwin Land
#23. I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.
Rufus Jones
#25. There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.
Dejan Stojanovic
#26. Great companies first build a culture of discipline . . . and create a business model that fits squarely in the intersection of three circles: what they can be best in the world at, a deep understanding of their economic engine, and the core values they hold with deep passion.
Isadore Sharp
#27. As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.
Charles Caleb Colton
#28. 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
#29. Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
A.S. Byatt
#30. There she stood. Dark circles ringed her eyes. Her face was pale, almost snow-white. She probably hadn't slept, either. She was still wearing the same dress. Her hair looked like a bomb had gone off. She was beautiful.
Daniel Ehrenhaft
#31. In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in the front row at your aunt's funeral, but those are the circles I avoid like the plague or, for that matter, the clap.
Rob Sheffield
#32. Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.
Isabella Rossellini
#33. Life proceeds out of your intention. Your true intention is revealed by your actions, and your actions are determined by your true intention. As with everything in life (and life itself), it is a circle.
Neale Donald Walsch
#34. Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.
Theodore Millon
#35. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.
Pat Riley
#36. I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.
Aimee Bender
#37. When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.
Walter A. Davis
#38. I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.
Meek Mill
#39. Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.
Elia Kazan
#40. 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
#41. We shall be notes in that great Symphony
Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres,
And all the live World's throbbing heart shall be
Once with our heart
Oscar Wilde
#42. Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle.
Pat Williams
#43. I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!
John Quincy Adams
#44. In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which side of the fence we feel compelled to belong,
J.P. Robinson
#45. The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public ... What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?
Amado Nervo
#46. And Lawrence was afraid of the main thing. He had a tendency to talk feverishly all around the main thing, as if bundling it with twine. Presumably if he talked in circles around the main thing for long enough it would lie there, vanquished, panting on its side, like a roped steer.
Lionel Shriver
#47. Before there was a death there had been a life, and before that life a death and that there would be a life after this death too. The circles would continue on without end and everyone who was once connected would be connected again.
M.J. Rose
#48. No square shall enter in the circle of winners
Curren$y
#49. Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses ...
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#50. The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.
Neale Donald Walsch
#51. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
Sara Zarr
#52. Sefi slinks around us, examining the alien Gold and the strange gear she carries. I like the way people talk when Sefi circles. Seems a little more honest.
Pierce Brown
#53. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.
D.R. Silva
#54. We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.
Gloria Steinem
#55. Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?
Louis Farrakhan
#56. As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.
Oliver Goldsmith
#57. I'm like one of those rich society girls - ridiculously famous in certain circles but only for stupid reasons.
Melissa F. Olson
#58. It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.
Paulo Coelho
#59. As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.
Alexander Haig
#60. Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
Thomas Aquinas
#61. If you're going through a dark time ... don't ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.
Lady Gaga
#62. That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow for consciousness to change.
Gloria Steinem
#63. He couldn't have moved quicker if he had been the dachshund Poppet, who at this juncture was running round in circles, trying, if I read his thoughts aright, to work off the rather heavy lunch he had had earlier in the afternoon.
P.G. Wodehouse
#64. Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders ... Without the word of God, we walk in circles.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#65. Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
Bernard Malamud
#66. A poem doesn't come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.
Franny Billingsley
#67. I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.
Geoffrey Rush
#68. I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.
Chino Moreno
#69. Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest ... guy on the planet.'
Tommy Franks
#70. I'll tell you something else too; by the time we're through we shall have had all we can stand of this North woman. I wouldn't mind betting she thinks we have nothing better to do than run around in circles while she gets on with this three-act problem play of hers.
Georgette Heyer
#71. The more confident you are, the more you can let go and believe that the people you've chosen to be in your circle are able to do what they say they're going to do and what they're really good at. It has made me a better band member, too.
Nikki Sixx
#72. In L.A., everyone is in their car all the time, so you're used to not interacting with people for the majority of the day, and it kind of trickles into nightlife and all that. People stay within their circles and there's no real mingling to be had.
Shenae Grimes
#74. Not all teachers utilize both forms of light.In certain circles, those teachers who can manifest the light of samadhi but not the mystical light have put down the mystical light.
Frederick Lenz
#75. If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a problem rather than soothing it and if not seeking to expand the comfort zone becomes the norm.
Philippa Perry
#76. If you love someone and they reject and neglect, you gotta move on, there's no point running in circles for someone when there's no reward.
Shannon Leto
#77. The spiritual malady that we speak of so often in recovery circles requires a spiritual solution. Nothing else will ever be enough and nothing else will last.
Marta Mrotek
#78. To begin with I thought we were driving around in circles until I realised that Herr Starbuck owned dozens of coffee houses.
Timur Vermes
#79. The rule of law is critical for economic development; without clear property rights and contract enforcement, it is difficult for businesses to break out of small circles of trust.
Francis Fukuyama
#80. Thus the story describes a full circle ... a vicious circle as all circles are, despite their posing as apples, or planets, or human faces.
Vladimir Nabokov
#81. Forgiveness is a revolving door positioned in your path. You must step through it to move on, but it takes both timing and choice to escape walking circles inside.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
Dante Alighieri
#83. We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
Charles Hamilton Houston
#84. The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#85. advanced socialbot software, a program to create and operate fake profiles that looked and acted like real people on Circles. Socialbots were designed to befriend real Circles users and dupe them into divulging their sensitive personal and financial information.
Scott Allan Morrison
#86. In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'
Barton Gellman
#87. Segmented killing and hatred will only stop when we enlarge our personal, national, and international circles of concern to include all six billion people on this planet: not just the white ones, Christian ones, American ones, female ones, or any ones. Simply put: every one.
Cindy Sheehan
#88. I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.
Max Pam
#89. It was a revolving door that kept going in circles. I got to the point where I thought, "Man, none of this is doing it." but I'd keep repeating the same actions. I'd go win another contest, open another company, invent a new maneuver.
Christian Hosoi
#90. The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.
Francis Parkman
#91. Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.
Ivan Fernandez Anaya
#92. I write most of my stories the way people talk, complete with an occasional run-on sentences and stuff that seems to go around in a few circles before making its point. In a comedy, you can do that.
Dan Alatorre
#93. Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
Mark Twain
#94. On one of these occasions, suddenly there hovered around the top of the rock a brightness of unequaled clearness and color, which, in increasingly smaller circles thickened, was the enchanting figure of the beautiful Lore.
Mark Twain
#95. Loosen the bonds of discursive thought. Extend the circle of caring. Cease armoring against suffering. Wish for others the same happiness you wish for yourself. Be a tender-minded steward of creation.
Marc Ian Barasch
#96. Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
Eugene Ionesco
#98. I don't really believe I am a hero to the world. But I long ago decided that I must live as if I were a hero - that I must pass through all the difficulties which confront me, because they are only my inevitable circles of fire.
Anne Rice
#99. But you're so much stronger than he was. He wasn't able to get up after being knocked down. You're different. I've never even seen you fall. - Jade, Small Circles
Megan Duke
#100. True healing means drawing the circle of our being larger and becoming more inclusive, more capable of loving. In this sense, healing is not for the sick alone, but for all humankind.
Richard Moss
