Circles Quotes - Page 19

• Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Doe, World

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Brother, Selfish

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.50, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

  Mitt Romney

  Party, America, Pessimistic

  "CN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. March 15, 2013.

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• The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Drawing, Goal

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• The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the road for about five or six years straight, not living anywhere. Thirty-three years later, I`ve come full circle.

  Maureen McGovern

  Years, Careers, Soul

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• The Angelina Effect refers to the fact that a powerful, beautiful, well-respected and world-renowned woman unabashedly revealed private medical details about a gene mutation which affects 1 in 500 people. In so doing, she raised awareness and sparked conversations around the world amongst known BRCA carriers, possible carriers, and the circle of family and friends who care about them.

  Kristi Funk

  Beautiful, Powerful, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler - and the technologies, too. Then we will have come full circle to something like life on the savanna.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Technology, Two, Full Circle

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter.

  Robin Williams

  Worry, People, Track

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The more confident you are, the more you can let go and believe that the people you've chosen to be in your circle are able to do what they say they're going to do and what they're really good at. It has made me a better band member, too.

  Nikki Sixx

  Letting Go, Believe, People

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• Well, of course, all of the statistics say there are fewer eligible black men in my circle. But I've never thought of it that way. I believe that if the right person came into my life that would have been terrific.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Men, Black

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.

  Ivan Illich

  Meaningful, Men, Growth

  Ivan Illich, Lionel Rubinoff (1971). “Tradition and Revolution”, Macmillan of Canada ; New York : St. Martin's Press

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• I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

  Harriet Walter

  Thinking, Long, Gossip

  "My body & soul". Interview with Catherine Rapley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

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• Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?

  Lewis Carroll

  Ignorance, May, Facts

  The Dynamics of a Parti-cle (1865)

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• Hey, what if those crop circles are just ads for Target?

  Dennis Miller

  What If, Target, Hey

  "Fictional character: Dennis Miller Doll". "The Nostalgia Critic/ The First Couple: TMNT", 2010.

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• I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Writing, Thinking, Listening

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• Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.

  C. S. Lewis

  Home, Men, Being Real

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

  Frances Mayes

  Giving, World, Lives Of Others

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• The Master encouraged us to gain friends, that is, to expand our circle of friends through which we can feel more intensive protection in a spirit of cooperation and through intervening values.

  Chico Xavier

  Gains, Spirit, Cooperation

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• We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Compassion, Needs

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• I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

  Niall Ferguson

  Thinking, Important, Doe

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• In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.

  Will Ferrell

  Hate, That One Person, Circle Of Friends

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• The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be spared to harmonize and amalgamate the two parties in social circles.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Two, Spirit

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.276, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from their own ego to their essence, and then to connect to do whatever work in the world they are called to do, that's an evolutionary circle.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Spiritual, Heart, Essence

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Keys, Differences, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain white dissolves were used that would try to emulate the look and feel of comic book panel borders. Sometimes they would frame shots in panels or circles that gave it a real comic book feel.

  Michael Uslan

  Real, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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