Circles Quotes - Page 17

• It takes two wings for an eagle to fly. If an eagle were to try to fly with just one wing he would only spin around in circles on the ground. The same is true with many people who are trying to soar spiritually on their faith, but have not added patience. These just keep going around in circles, getting more and more frustrated and kicking up a lot of dust. Any truth that we teach without this counter balancing truth will lead us to frustration, not fulfillment.

  Rick Joyner

  Frustration, Eagles, Dust

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• I became an actor to escape my own personality. Acting is the most therapeutic thing in the world. You see, through acting you come full circle in your personality and, oh, what a grand time you can have along the way being wonderful people through your characters...I think all the courage that I may lack personally I have as an actor.

  George C. Scott

  Character, Thinking, People

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• There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Able, Steps

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• Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

  Richard Rohr

  Simple, Climbing, Games

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

  Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

  Reading, Feminist, Ethics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Giving never moves in a straight line - it always moves in circles.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Moving, Giving, Lines

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• In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

  Franz Kafka

  Lying, Humans, Visible

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• You will never outperform your inner circle.

  John Wooden

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• The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Passion, Wrath

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.170

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• To recognize that mystery, we must go down deep into ourselves, into that place where the walls of our being are layered with our own memories. Remember that, as in any pool, when we cast one pebble we will see many, many concentric circles. One memory begets another and then another, building into stories.

  Meinrad Craighead

  Wall, Memories, Stories

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• It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right.

  Christopher Alexander

  Pieces, Common Experience, Firsts

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• You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil.

  Antonin Scalia

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Jennifer Senior, nymag.com. October 6, 2013.

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• Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Bullying, Past

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.90, Library of Alexandria

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• President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles.

  Will Durst

  Running, Thinking, Iraq

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• Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Party, Hands

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• The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mistake, People, Shields

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• Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

  Peter Schiff

  Thinking, Printing Money, Common Sense

  "A Little Understanding Goes a Long Way" by Peter Schiff, www.businessinsider.com. March 7, 2011.

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• If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

  Warren Buffett

  Competence, Wells, Perimeter

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• If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

  Gloria Steinem

  Two, Political, Missing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.

  Sarah Paulson

  Mother, Jobs, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.

  Judy Woodruff

  Years, Class, Space

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Echoes, Self

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• Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, War, Grief

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• Mix cream concealer with an illuminator so it doesn't sit in your lines but instead throws light on dark circles so your skin looks fresh.

  Tess Daly

  Dark, Light, Skins

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• The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Ponds, May

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

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