Smaller And Smaller Circles Quotes

#1. Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, frequently encountered strange and sometimes terrifying psychophysical forces while at prayer.

Willigis Jager

#2. Sleep," he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you." "With what?" "My bare hands, obviously.

Veronica Roth

#3. Ignorance is constricted awareness ...

Deepak Chopra

#4. 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

#5. She was mine, had always been, and I'd always been hers. Despite what I'd done, the wounds I'd inflicted, she had always been mine ... our hearts had been tied, our bond one that neither of us could ever escape.

A.L. Jackson

#6. 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

#7. Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

Victor Hugo

#8. What does the future look like? ... Jude said it looked like an open road just after a rainstorm.

Alexandra Bracken

#9. I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

Milton Glaser

#10. There was a single ray of sun shining through the window. I got up, went to the cracked glass, and saw that it was both raining and shining outside
a bit of meteorological weirdness whose name no one can seem to agree on. My mom, I kid you not, refers to it as orphan's tears.

Ransom Riggs

#11. Don't you ever have conversations where someone took a wrong turn at some point, and then it goes on and on and it becomes too late to put things right?

Nick Hornby

#12. Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

Richard Baxter

#13. New poems no longer come to me with their prodigies of metaphor and assonance. Prose endures. I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is, on the whole, preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

Donald Hall

#14. Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him people who "do not usually know what's supposed to be impossible.

Eric Schmidt

#15. People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

Jon Voight

#16. Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Survival's the thing, isn't it?

Janet Morris