Circles Quotes - Page 35

• Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.

  Antonio Machado

  Hands, Waiting, Watches

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

  Robert Hunter

  Darkness, Lovers, No Fear

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• It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Pressure Groups, Goal, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The world is made of Circles
  And we think in straight Lines

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, World, Lines

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• Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

  Peter Senge

  Reality, Lines, Made

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.63, Random House

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• What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power; that the men of the circles composing this elite, severally and collectively, now make such key decisions as are made; and that, given the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power now available, the decisions that they make and fail to make carry more consequences for more people than has ever been the case in the world history of mankind

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, Men, Keys

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Food, Icons

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.66, Bantam

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• The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.

  Ollie Johnston

  Simple, Shapes, Construction

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• I must be frank in my feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout our evangelical Christian circles -- the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need Him as Saviour and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to Him as Lord as long as we want to... The truth is that salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred scripture... Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Self, Long

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• Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

  Vandana Shiva

  Compassion, People, Hatred

  Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.11, Zed Books

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• Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

  Barbara Pym

  Lonely, Men, Self

  Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

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• The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

  Doreen Valiente

  Feelings, Atmosphere, Magic

  Doreen Valiente (2018). “An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present”, p.372, The Crowood Press

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• As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

  Kellie Pickler

  Emotional, Worry, Abuse

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• All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. Things come full circle, back to where they started. That's revolution.

  Russell Means

  Mother, Simple, Order

  "I Am Not a Leader": Russell Means’ 1980 Mother Jones Cover Story, www.motherjones.com.

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• A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

  David Icke

  War, Cincinnati Ohio, Knights

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

  Walter A. Davis

  Faith, Belief, Psychological

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• In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Teacher, Art, Book

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• What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world.

  Dorothy Day

  Rights, Ponds, World

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• For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, People, Suffering

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• What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Eye, Artist, Creating

  "Caspar David Friedrich's Der Watzmann: German Romantic Landscape Painting and Historical Geology". Timothy Mitchell, "The Art Bulletin", Volume 66, No. 3 (pp. 452-464), September 1984.

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• An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

  Brian Tracy

  Running, Average, Priorities

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat that Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Like the vain curlings of the watery maze,
  Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise,
  So Man, declining always, disappears
  In the weak circles of increasing years;
  And his short tumults of themselves compose,
  While flowing Time above his head does close.

  Andrew Marvell

  Men, Years, Mazes

  Andrew Marvell (1870). “The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell: With Memoir of the Author”, p.96

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• Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Debtors, Looks

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.760, Delphi Classics

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• The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

  Mother Teresa

  Mom, World, Problem

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• THE BODY SHOULD be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes serenity and perfection, the source of unlimited techniques. The square stands for solidity, the basis of applied control.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Squares, Perfection, Serenity

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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