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Image of Nikos Kazantzakis
We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Collection: Circles
Image of Robert Jordan
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
Collection: Circles
Image of William James
But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.
- William James
Collection: Circles
Image of William James
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
- William James
Collection: Circles
Image of Elia Kazan
Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.
- Elia Kazan
Collection: Circles
Image of Rose Wilder Lane
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.
- Rose Wilder Lane
Collection: Circles
Image of C. S. Lewis
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
Collection: Circles
Image of Stephen King
The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.
- Stephen King
Collection: Circles
Image of Honore de Balzac
Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Circles
Image of Jon Kabat-Zinn
You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Collection: Circles
Image of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Collection: Circles
Image of David Letterman
You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart's personal lemon zester.
- David Letterman
Collection: Circles
Image of Jay Leno
The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.
- Jay Leno
Collection: Circles
Image of Fran Lebowitz
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.
- Fran Lebowitz
Collection: Circles
Image of Edwin Land
Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'
- Edwin Land
Collection: Circles
Image of Alan Lightman
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
- Alan Lightman
Collection: Circles
Image of Eva Mendes
People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.
- Eva Mendes
Collection: Circles
Image of Max Lucado
History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Circles
Image of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collection: Circles
Image of Richard Matheson
Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.
- Richard Matheson
Collection: Circles
Image of Karl Marx
The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Circles
Image of Naguib Mahfouz
It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Collection: Circles
Image of James Russell Lowell
Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.
- James Russell Lowell
Collection: Circles
Image of Benoit Mandelbrot
Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
- Benoit Mandelbrot
Collection: Circles
Image of Juliet Marillier
I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface.
- Juliet Marillier
Collection: Circles
Image of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collection: Circles
Image of George MacDonald
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.
- George MacDonald
Collection: Circles