Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine M. Kunin

There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

Jonathan Larson

The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.

Rachel Caine

Bouncing in hoppy little circles like a demented Goth bunny.

Pete Seeger

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

Questlove

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Pocahontas

We are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends,

Joanna Newsom

I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

George MacDonald

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

Ellen Hopkins

I tattered their wings and tore off their legs, joint by joint, watched them crawl in circles, like little lost infants, untill they decide to die.

Jim Talent

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

Leo Tolstoy

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

Joseph Campbell

Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life.

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

Peace Pilgrim

Visualize a golden light within you and spread it out. First to those about you - your circle of friends and relatives - and then gradually to the world. Keep on visualizing God's golden light surrounding our earth.

Pythagoras

Don't disarrange my circles!

Haruki Murakami

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

John Dryden

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

Laurell K. Hamilton

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

Juliet Marillier

I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface.

Joseph Goebbels

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

Maria Mitchell

A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

Paul Klee

Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

John Green

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

P.M. Forni

If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.

Louis Farrakhan

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?

Michael Schumacher

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

Naguib Mahfouz

It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

Oprah Winfrey

I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

Oliver Goldsmith

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

Oliver Goldsmith

The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness

Mark Twain

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

Mark Twain

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.