Circles Quotes - Page 32

• A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.

  Franny Billingsley

  Mean, Tails, Eating

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.5, A&C Black

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• He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

  Terry Pratchett

  Enemy, Moved On, Centre

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• Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

  Danny Kaye

  Love, Heart, Forever

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• Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

  Vladimir Lenin

  Independent, Curves, Class

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• Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

  Richard Matheson

  Pain, People, Forever

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• I survive at the edge of friends circles.

  Holly Black

  Edges

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Taken, Full Circle, Unbroken

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• Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknown Enter within. Stay without On pain of death, we cast you out.

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Pain, Evil, Casts

  Yasmine Galenorn (2011). “Blood Wyne: An Otherworld Novel”, p.77, Penguin

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• No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the future anymore?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Children, Dying, Alive

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 20, 2011

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• The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before there was humankind, or even forest, there was sound. Sound spread from the source in great circles like those formed when a stone is dropped in a pool. We follow waves of sound from life to life. A dying man’s ears will hear long after his eyes are blind. He hears the sound that leads him to his next life as the Source of All being plucks the harp of creation.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Stars, Eye, Men

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• The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.

  Ann Brashares

  Light, Understanding, Tiny

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.429, Delacorte Press

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• turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.

  Ken Kesey

  Wall, Glasses, Yelling

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.

  Italo Calvino

  Dog, Moon, Night

  Italo Calvino (2014). “The Complete Cosmicomics”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth.

  Eric Schlosser

  Mcdonalds, Ethos, Perfect

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• If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Prayer, Struggle

  Philip Yancey (2011). “Prayer”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• Bouncing in hoppy little circles like a demented Goth bunny.

  Rachel Caine

  Bunnies, Littles, Goth

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.11, Penguin

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• He moves his thumb in a slow circle over the back of my hand. It is meant to comfort me, but it frustrates me instead. I need to talk to him. I need to look at him.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Hands, Comfort

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• 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

  Ambition, Independent, Fearless

  Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone (1987). “The Essential Adam Smith”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Drawing, Boredom, Insanity

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.129, A&C Black

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• What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Darkness, Tails, Chasing

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.56, Random House

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• One day, our love will conquer this dark circle. That's worth everything to me

  Lauren Kate

  Dark, One Day, Our Love

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• lets go back, back to the begining back to when the earth the sun the stars they all aligned, cause perfect didn't feel so perfect tryin to fit a square into a circle was no life i defy

  Hilary Duff

  Letting Go, Stars, Squares

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• When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

  Frantz Fanon

  Color, Dislike Me, People

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• I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And now she's pregnant and in love with a man who'll never love her the way she loves him. It's a series of vicious circles, and the only way to stop it is to find someone who loves you the same. No power struggle. No insecurities. Just friendship. Because you can never be friends with someone if you love them too much.

  Lisa Jewell

  Struggle, Love You, Men

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• People I didn't know formed a circle around me, sheltering me from view. They escorted me safely back to our jurta, undetected. They didn't ask for anything. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit. We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Ocean, Views, Sky

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.194, Penguin

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