Circles Quotes - Page 33

• Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Hurt, Mind

  "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2000.

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• But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Fall, Water, Joy

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• You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

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• And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Eye, Lasts, Wonder

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.86, Penguin Books India

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• I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and a bunch of guys moaning in Italian. The demon pigeons went nuts. They started flying in circles, running into each other like they wanted to bash their own brains out.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Italian, Air

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many would--" "Four." Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor's thick black eyebrows rose in surprise. "And suppose I had five figs. How many would we--" "Nine." "Have you done this before?" Hezekiah thought the question was ridiculous. "I've eaten figs lots of times.

  Lynn Austin

  Eyebrows, Two, Drawing

  Lynn Austin (2016). “The Chronicles of the Kings Collection: Five Novels in One”, p.129, Baker Books

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• Of course.” She fluffed her hair. “I don’t want to brag, but I’m very high maintenance.” “Uh, I think low maintenance is what’s desirable.” “Low maintenance is what’s forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It’s golden.” With barely a breath, she added, “Now let’s find out if we’re compatible, shall we?

  Gena Showalter

  Stars, Writing, Thinking

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.38, Harlequin

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• Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

  Charles Frazier

  Dark, Light, Space

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.245, Random House

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• Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.

  Veronica Roth

  Mars, Half, Factions

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• .. then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Running, Hurt, Loneliness

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• Frank couldn't breathe underwater. But where was he? Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- into a koi the size of a teen-aged boy. "dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?" Frank's voice came back to him: "I freaked. We were talking about goldfish, so it was on my mind. Sue me.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Talking, Sea

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• What Rose brings to the Doctor’s life is completion. It’s completing a circle – he’s male, he’s alien, he’s a traveler. Between the two of them together they complement each other and discover each other. And are in love with each other – absolutely, unashamedly, unreservedly.

  Russell T Davies

  Doctors, Two, Rose

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• Tommy grabs my waist and swings me around in a circle. I drag my feet because i am opposed to people touching me when I'm not expecting it. Also because it will take more than dancing to cheer me up.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Cheer, Swings, Feet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.310, Scholastic UK

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• It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.

  Sherman Alexie

  Stupid, Believe, Ugly

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• For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind - a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Pain, Attitude, Passion

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1151, Delphi Classics

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• We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

  C. S. Lewis

  Two, Long, Decision

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Great Divorce”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• The Empress will follow where you go," she said. "So she will," Mat said. "As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.

  Robert Jordan

  Empresses, Said

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• Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Past, Becoming, Desperation

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• Suddenly they were dancing, holding each other tight, moving in circles that symbolised their relationship, both afraid to let go, both willing the song to continue while silently their insides tore.

  Anna McPartlin

  Letting Go, Song, Moving

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• [A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

  O. Henry

  Baseball, Running, Moving

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.769, 谷月社

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• He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language.

  Patti Smith

  Keys, Play, Musician

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.169, A&C Black

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• How small life is here and how big nothingness. The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow. The two trees bow their heads to each other. Clouds cross the world’s silence in a circle dance

  Robert Walser

  Tired, Clouds, Light

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• Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.

  Humphry Davy

  Science, Light, Discovery

  Sir Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Salmonia, or Days of fly-fishing. Consolation in travel, or The last days of a philosopher”, p.362

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• I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I knew that others before me had been granted the liberty of imagining whatever circles they wished to represent the phenomena of the stars, I thought that I likewise would readily be allowed to test whether, by assuming some motion of the Earth's, more dependable representations than theirs could be found for the revolutions of the heavenly spheres.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Stars, Science, Opportunity

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1976). “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”, David & Charles Publishers

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• Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Truth, Science, Men

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