Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use… — William James Copy Share Image
We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I sat with myself one day and asked, 'Who is in those prestigious literary circles? Do they represent me? Do they appreciate… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The movements of nature are in a never ending circle. The animal species which has once been put into a train of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . I am the mist of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree.… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
“When grown-ups asked you to sit in a circle, they were usually about to tell you something you didn't want to hear.… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't… — Jeri Ryan Copy Share Image
As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It graduates to 'our state is better than your state,' and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Tommy grabs my waist and swings me around in a circle. I drag my feet because i am opposed to people touching… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect… — Harvey Ball Copy Share Image
Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I visited a friend in Leicester recently. It was 4am and we all ran around in a circle, six of us. It’s… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way.… — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted.… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I used to go to those dance circles when I was a kid. When break dancing was first popular in the '80s.… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I am proud that my inner circle of friends has never been defined by race but by the content of their character.… — Steve Clevenger Copy Share Image
It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I told my dad 'Yeah, I’m going to be a drummer', and he said 'Well, if you can rub your stomach at… — Tre Cool Copy Share Image
It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. life with ups and downs is better than a flat life or one that… — Marabel Morgan Copy Share Image