Quotes by Circles In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned. A. N. Wilson circles intellectual education The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole. A. R. Ammons circles white sun Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by. A. S. Byatt vocabulary lines circles We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it. Adam McKay backbone circles ideas Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun. Adam Mickiewicz chains-that-bind circles soul I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends. Adam Sandler circles play character Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you. Adam Smith independent circles ambition Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States. Adolfo Aguilar Zinser mexican united-states circles The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts. Agnes Repplier circles cat secret I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask. Agnes Smedley circles leader asking I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle. Ai Weiwei circles art thinking I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it. Ai Weiwei circles people art I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility. Aiden Wilson Tozer circles self christian I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q... Aimee Bender edges circles tails I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit. Aimee Teegarden clique true-friend circles Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine. A.J. Cronin routine circles friendship There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong, tend to be people who didn't take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language. Al Franken voters circles people Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly. Alan Lightman bending circles world In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely. Alan Lightman circles kissing time Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on. Alan Watts circles survival expectations 1234567891011»
