Quotes About Social Circles

#1. I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.

Jenny Eclair

#2. The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be spared to harmonize and amalgamate the two parties in social circles.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. It is a sad but unavoidable fact of life," he began, "that as we age our social circles grow smaller. Whether from increased habit or diminished vigor, we suddenly find ourselves in the company of just a few familiar faces.

Amor Towles

#4. You're a real firecracker, Astrid, aren't you? Firecracker is what people in certain social circles say when what they really mean is asshole.

David Iserson

#5. There's no indication that middle-income families feel resentful about the bigger mansions and yachts. But the near-rich, whose social circles intersect those of the rich, are subtly influenced by them.

Bob Frank

#6. Every person I've met who has moved to Denmark tells me the same thing. It is close to impossible to penetrate the social circles there.

Meik Wiking

#7. One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.

Julius Wellhausen

#8. Madeline traveled with ease through dozens of overlapping social circles, making both lifelong friends and lifetime enemies along the way; probably more of the latter.

Liane Moriarty

#9. 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

#10. It's like what you might call Goldilocks' dilemma in the old fairy tale. Young men see women as "less than" or "better than," but never their equals. And studies indicate that equality is the best foundation for a healthy relationship.

Michael Kimmel

#11. The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.

Georg Simmel

#12. I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

Aidan Quinn

#13. I think he loved us equally, but differently.

Khaled Hosseini

#14. If my gift has a giver other than indifferent Nature and comes with a purpose, then the angel in charge of the Odd Thomas account must be operating on a shoestring budget.

Dean Koontz

#15. But what did we really know, even of one another? We never thought of a future. Our small solar system - what was it heading towards? And how long would each of us mean something to the others?

Michael Ondaatje

#16. If there's not someone in your social circle who doesn't look like you, then shame on you.

Leigh Anne Tuohy

#17. The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.

Jonathan Larson

#18. I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.

Judith Viorst

#19. I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

Vinnie Jones

#20. The University of Life is greater than the universities of men.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

A.J. Cronin

#22. Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

Archibald MacLeish

#23. As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

Stacy Schiff

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

Richard Koch

#25. Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#26. I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."

Scott Raab

#27. I'm very structured. I like planning things out. I get frustrated when they don't go according to plan.

Tia Mowry

#28. In some circles, to not have seen The Wire had become a shocking breach of social protocol.

Brett Martin

#29. Comic artists have always been part of my social circle. I just like hanging out with artists, and I always see them at conventions or a store signing or something. "Hey, we should do something together."

Mark Millar

#30. She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

Victoria Wood