Circles Quotes - Page 37

• The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on dark nights when the wind blows. On the other hand, there is no way of ever knowing, when one steps out into that circle, if the connection will be made.

  Ruth Cracknell

  Art, Powerful, Blessed

  "Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir".

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• Walk to the well.
  Turn as the earth and the moon turn,
  circling what they love.
  Whatever circles comes from the center.

  Rumi

  Moon, Earth, Walks

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.343, Penguin UK

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• If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance.

  George Carlin

  Long, People, Enough

  "Napalm and Silly Putty". Book by George Carlin, April 24, 2001.

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• It's a small world, but we all run in big circles.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Running, World, Bigs

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• If you’re going through a dark time... don’t ever give up. You can always make your way back to the other end of that circle and find your happiness again.

  Lady Gaga

  Giving Up, Dark, Way

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• If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

  John Stott

  Order, May, Worship

  John Stott (1992). “The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening”

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• Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.

  Bill W.

  Simple, Men, Kitchen

  Bill W. (2013). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Real, Lying

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• The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Compassion, Self

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 17, 2013

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• You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

  T. D. Jakes

  Intimate Relationships, People, Looks

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• The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Three, Synthesis, Eccentric

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)”, p.113, Delphi Classics

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• We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of each other's arms, and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a dance, and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance, to a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it except in fragments.

  Wendell Berry

  Moving, Hands, Ears

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.10, Counterpoint Press

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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

  Alexander Smith

  Autumn, Years, October

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Men, Civilization

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

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• But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Library, Looks

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.293, Melville House

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• If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving nothing superior to His divinity, then also was there the Father's Son, having in the Father a timeless beginning, like the sun's great circle of overwhelming clear light.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Father, Son

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• India - a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good. In India - at least in the circles I moved in - it's natural to look beautiful by the smile in your heart and the way you move through the world.

  Erin Lokitz

  Beautiful, Travel, Moving

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• I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel like a radio playing in an empty room.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Empty Rooms, Feelings

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• I don't dance, But here I am
  Spinning you around and around in circles
  It Ain't my style, but I don't care
  I'd do anything with you anywhere
  Yes, you got me in the palm of your hand
  Cause, I don't dance.

  Lee Brice

  Hands, Here I Am, Style

  Song: I Don't Dance, 2014

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• We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.

  Albert Einstein

  Jobs, Thinking, Compassion

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• To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

  Richard Koch

  Ideas, Social, Contact

  Richard Koch, Greg Lockwood (2010). “Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links”, p.28, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a refuge- the place of safety and protection- the sanctuary of ancient times. You will be safe within it. It encircles each sister like a protecting wall.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Wall, Safety, Relief

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• And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."

  Dante Alighieri

  Fashion, Morning, Stars

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• Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

  James C. Collins

  Work, Three, Enough

  "Best new year's resolution? A 'stop doing' list" by James C. Collins, www.jimcollins.com. December 30, 2003.

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• Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

  Aristophanes

  Work, Four, Century

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