Circle Quotes

965 quotes by 789 authors

It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is… — Rory Miller
I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I… — Black Elk
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to… — Lynn Andrews
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other… — Clifford Allbutt
On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film: Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera… — Robert Brustein
Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow--… — Franklin P. Adams
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a… — Pablo Picasso
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,… — Oliver Goldsmith
Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle. — William J. Clinton
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did… — Samuel Beckett
A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it;… — Paul Klee
Deep inside of every human being is this feeling that nothing is ever going to be complete, that the circle will never connect - and… — Pete Townshend
What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt,… — Mervyn Peake
I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions about my personal… — Joseph J. Ellis
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. — Anish Kapoor
The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the… — Wassily Kandinsky
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of… — William Graham Sumner
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming… — Alexander Theroux
They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human… — Anna Deavere Smith

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