Round Quotes - page 3

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. (Scott Adams)
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't choose up sides on a round world.
Wayne W. Dyer
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William Shakespeare
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
A. J. P. Taylor
The world is round.
Christopher Columbus
I could have knocked him Tyrell Biggs out in the third round but I wanted to do it slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time.
Mike Tyson
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
George Crabbe
Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.
Karl Marx
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.... (John Cassian)
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
Charles Williams
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.
Ken Follett
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
Buffalo Bill
Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.
Eberhard Weber
Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.
Karl Philipp Moritz
To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.
Phil Lesh
The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.
John Lennon
Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf. (Jean Chrétien)
If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.
George Eliot
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
One win and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament; you're back to reality.
Sania Mirza
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
Ayn Rand