Quotes by Circles The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi circlesroundsmen The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe turnsrealizingcircles On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere: Johannes Kepler circlesdwellingtogether When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn't stay loyal to you, they don't stay your friend for very long. John Cena circlesloyaltylong Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required. John Cassian circleslawmen Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point. John Dee supportcirclesprinciples Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun , the Moon , and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity , and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre. John Dee circlesmoonearth Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle. John Darnielle circlescrazybelieve The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else. John Cleese circlesimportantwriting But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. John Dryden magiccircleswalks There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry-go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles and ended right back where they'd started. John F. Kerry horseadministrationcircles I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity. John Green boredomdrawingcircles The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals. John Hartford spiralseverything-happens-for-a-reasoncircles She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine. Jodi Picoult circlessportshands If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats. John Howard iraqcirclesrunning Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass. John James Ingalls can-notcirclesmen Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe debtorscirclestime So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within a larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible. John Kennedy Toole wheelscirclesprinciples Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway. John Lennon circlesmusicmean I think many of my books, including "Handle with Care," including "My Sister's Keeper" circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be. Jodi Picoult circlesbookthinking«2425262728293031323334»
