Circle Quotes

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. (Albert Schweitzer)
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer. View quote
Anish Kapoor
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism. View quote
Laura Riding
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story. View quote
Horacio Quiroga
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
CAT, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be Within that circle none durst walk but he. View quote
John Dryden
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? View quote
Jules Verne
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. View quote
Victor Hugo
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)
This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognition, but rather a vicious circle which encloses both the master and the servant. Do the technicians rule, or is their rule that of the others, who rely on the technicians as their planners and executors? View quote
Herbert Marcuse
O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. View quote
William Shakespeare
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. View quote
Harry Johnston
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. View quote
Albert Einstein
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.... View quote
John Cassian
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be. View quote
Anna Freud
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. View quote
Ida Tarbell
And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place. View quote
Scott Stapp
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! View quote
Edmund Waller
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. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically. View quote
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet. View quote
Blaise Pascal