Circles Quotes - Page 25

• Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

  Zadie Smith

  Drawing, Attention, Should

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• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  Pamela Anderson

  Marine, Animal, People

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• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you,' but that's part of my charm.

  Pamela Anderson

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "Pamela Anderson: 'I'm not talking about my boobs - that's very 1999'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Even as a kid, I read Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.

  Pamela Anderson

  Real, Kids, Reflection

  "Pamela Anderson: 'I'm not talking about my boobs - that's very 1999'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference.

  David Bailey

  Thinking, Differences, Ferrari

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• I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Dream, Home

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate world, the mental or heavenly world.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Three, World

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• Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

  Bill Bryson

  Cities, Typical, Malls

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• It's all about the light. Always face it, because that's how you give your face good angles. If you're outside when the sun is overhead, you're going to have dark circles from the sun creating shadows on your face. So no outdoor pictures between 12 and two!

  Gisele Bundchen

  Dark, Creating, Light

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• In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

  Tony Campolo

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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  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

  Loyalty, Long, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Giving Up, Fun

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• Most things in music go full circle eventually.

  Simon Cowell

  Full Circle

  "Exclusive Q&A: Simon Cowell on One Direction's rise to stardom". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. April 9, 2012.

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• It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Real, Dancing, Leader

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• Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

  Eminem

  Funny, Friends, Kind

  "Eminem: What I've Learned" by Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Ideas, People

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• 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

  People, Voters, Way

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• A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

  Buddy Hackett

  Comedian, World, Bent

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• As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

  Alexander Haig

  War, America, Support

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• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ideas, Two

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Night, Bed, Full Circle

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• I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?

  Shahrukh Khan

  Thinking, People, Few Friends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

  C. Everett Koop

  Kids, Class, Green

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• There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Leaving, Needs, Excuse

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