Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual…

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than…

— A. N. Wilson

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand…

— Dallas Willard

I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of…

— Samuel Barber

And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the…

— David Hume

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists…

— Friedrich Schiller

It's important to recognize that expanding the circle of opportunity and increasing the democratic potential of our own society, as well as those across…

— Hillary Clinton

I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

— Rumi

There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and then that…

— Dan Mangan

All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.

— Harry Chapin

Maybe this is a way of gaslighting myself, but I think of it this way: In certain circles, my grandpa was considered to be…

— Zoe Kazan

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with…

— Evelyn Waugh

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We…

— Joni Mitchell

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable…

— Peter L. Bernstein

Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb…

— Chester Bennington

In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all…

— Andy Warhol