Quotes and Sayings About Circles
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
-- A. N. Wilson -
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
-- A. R. Ammons -
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
-- A. S. Byatt -
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 -
Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.
-- Adam Mickiewicz -
I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
-- Adam Sandler -
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.
-- Adam Smith -
Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
-- Adolfo Aguilar Zinser -
I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
-- Agnes Smedley -
I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...
-- Aimee Bender -
I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.
-- Aimee Teegarden -
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
-- Alan Lightman -
Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature
-- Albert Einstein -
Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
-- Albert Pike -
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.
-- Alex Garland -
The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.
-- Alexander Calder -
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 -
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
-- Alexander Pope -
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
-- Alexander Smith -
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.
-- Alexander Theroux -
This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"
-- Alfonso Garcia Robles -
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.
-- Alfred Adler -
If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers...
-- Alice Walker -
That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.
-- Ally Carter -
Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate.
-- Alonzo King -
I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.
-- Alton Brown -
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
