Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lightman

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

Al Franken

There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong, tend to be people who didn't take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.

Czeslaw Milosz

On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.

Donald Sutherland

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

Anais Nin

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Anna Freud

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Alice Hoffman

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth.

Dorothy Thompson

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

Dorothy Day

What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

Curtis Jackson

When you get in a point when you generate finances in a circle of people they gonna treat you different. They gonna treat you like as if you're gonna bring the money. You're the cash cow.

Confucius

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.

Cyndi Lauper

Everything does go in a circle.

Craig Charles

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

It actually creates a circle of protection around your farm.

His name just popped up ... it wasn't his voice, it was his name, ... close circle of friends.

His name in football circles in Hampton Roads is well-respected.

I think you have to focus on the inner circle of the decision-makers.

There is a family tragedy here, and I don't want to compound that, ... I have three issues, and they all circle back to the potential misuse of public resources.

Jerry Pate

I think it's probably as significant as any win I've ever had for me personally. Maybe not for the golfing world, because it's not a U.S. Open or a Players Championship, but for me it's a huge win ... to be out of the winner's circle for 24 years. I mean that's a long time. And I'm just humbled that I could come back and do it.

Vicente Fox

If we keep wasting time, if we keep running in circles ... we will keep having more poverty,

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.'

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.

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.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.

Green Day

TrŽ: I told my dad "Yeah Im going to be a drummer" and he said "well you can if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time youre standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance". And I did all that just like bam you know?

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.

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.

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

Freya Stark

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

Ray McGovern

We all move in our circle of friends and neighbors. ... One must never try to do something like this alone. It requires a community, no matter how small.