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Round Quotes by Herman Melville
- Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
- Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs…
- It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way…
- Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked…
- But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets…
- Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give…
- I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either…
- All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
- He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay…
- All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
More Round Quotes
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest… — Marcus Aurelius
- There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round. — Paul Auster
- The world only goes round by misunderstanding. — Charles Baudelaire
- The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. — Scott Adams
- This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of… — Wendell Berry
- Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is… — Andrea Bocelli
- I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts… — Daniel Boone
- The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. — Elizabeth Bowen
- I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can. — Christina Aguilera