Circle Quotes

• Every part of a Circle is both a beginning and an end, and in a Circle, everything is one.

  

  Ben Mikaelsen
  • Beginning
  • Circle

• Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Grace
  • Draws
  • Circle

• One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knows
  • Circle
  • Wretched

• The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

  

  Kazuaki Tanahashi
  • Future
  • Responsibility
  • Present

• The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Earth
  • Circle
  • Heavens

• Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

  

  Isabel Allende
  • Peace
  • Circle
  • Wholeness

• I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Mind
  • Bodies
  • Motion

• 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
  • Understand
  • Public
  • Circle

• I am 54 years old and happily single. In addition to my nuclear family, I have a close circle of friends. Most of my friends are men. But my reputation is such that their female partners would never consider me a threat.

  

  Geraldine Lee Wei Ling
  • Single
  • Female
  • Reputation

• The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Earth
  • Noble
  • Formed

• The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

  

  George du Maurier
  • Circle
  • Wretched
  • Smokes

• What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Fear
  • Violence
  • Misery

• The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a circle, most people, when asked what I have drawn, will say I have drawn a circle or a disc, or a ball. Very few people will say I've drawn a hole in the wall, because most people think of the inside first, rather than thinking of the outside. But actually these two sides go together--you cannot have what is 'in here' unless you have what is out there.' " In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Thinking
  • Philosopher
  • Lectures

• If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.

  

  William Blake
  • See
  • Circle
  • Formed

• Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Moves
  • Circle
  • Visible

• No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

  

  Confucius
  • Change
  • Wave
  • Circle

• Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid.

  

  Catharine Cox Miles
  • Axioms
  • Triangle
  • Blaise Pascal

• It seems like it's come full circle. It's very personal.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Personal
  • Circle
  • Full

• His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Geometry

• Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Lies
  • Truth Is
  • Circle

• A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union.

  

  Georgi Parvanov
  • Strong
  • Decisions
  • Europe

• But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • People
  • Manager
  • Agent

• I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Dance
  • Circle
  • Corner

• Can the circle be unbroken Bye and bye, Lord, bye and bye There’s a better home a-waiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky.

  

  Alvin Pleasant Delaney Carter The Carter Family
  • Home
  • Waiting
  • Circle

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