Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

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.

Chino Moreno

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.

The pole of the earth moves in a circle around the pole of the ecliptic; its axis inclines more or less on the plane of this same ecliptic.

David Hewson

In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge.

Alice Walker

I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months.

Bob Newhart

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.

Samuel Butler

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

Aleister Crowley

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

Albert Einstein

An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.

Albert Pike

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

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

A. R. Ammons

The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

A. S. Byatt

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

We've been working with the preferred shareholders, trying to circle a number that would secure a vote.

Dan Millman

Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it ...

When we only look to our circle to find vendors, I find that insulting.

We'd be running in circles for the next 10 years if we tried to do everything that people have suggested. We are looking at everything, but it would be irresponsible for me to stand here and say we are going to do everything that was suggested. It's just not realistic.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'

There has never really been any threat of expulsion, just the hype in some international circles to try and frighten us. The motion would require 85 percent of the total votes.

There is a concentrated effort to draw Jerusalem into the circle of violence.

Hosni Mubarak

to a vicious circle of violence that harms the interests of the region's countries, Israel at the top.

We saw it circle around from the hills and come down into the wind, and land.

Freya Stark

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, a circle of creation is completed inside us. The doors of our soul open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Romano Prodi

Try to imagine the situation that would be created by a 10 to 15 day power vacuum. And how do you think the international economic circles would react.

Bjork

What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and romantic about the power of melodies. I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it's good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.

Donny Osmond

I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.

Barton Gellman

The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

But the Joint Committee is not meeting, so we are in a vicious circle at the moment.

C. S. Lewis

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Craig Thompson

Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don't think they resemble or relate to modern-day Christianity.