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Quotes About Circling

The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The planets are bodies in the solar system and so are we. You and I in elliptical orbs circling life. It is life we want, but we daren't come too close for fear it might burn us away, this life in its intensity.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Prince Cardan watched me all night, a shark restlessly circling, waiting for the right moment to bite. Even now I can conjure the memory of the scorched black of his eyes. And if I laughed louder for the sake of angering him, if I smiled wider, and kissed Locke longer, that is a kind of deceit that even the Folk cannot condemn.
~ Holly Black
Papery moths fly above our heads, circling up as though tragically drawn to the light of the stars.
~ Holly Black
The equatorial monsoons which brought a rainy season to the coasts had small effect here in the highlands, from moon to moon, the rainfall varied little. Winter, summer, autumn, spring were involuted, turning in upon themselves, a slow circling of time.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Then he took off with ponderous flight and circled and lowered, circled and lowered until the others danced in joy and hunger at his approach.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
she knew it must be of stupendous size to be visible from the edge of heaven. A line of black that reached out seemingly to infinity, yet which closed behind her, a border of black circling the world. The edge.
~ Unknown
Just as a crow that flies from a sail returns to it after circling and soaring, so a passionate mind that pursues the trail of thought returns to the primordial purity of mind.
~ Unknown
A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear Soon in the galaxy, that milky way Which mightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd wiht stars.
~ Unknown
They're like sharks. Circling. Cute, single guy, good job, nice car. It's all they know about me." His tone was light but his expression serious. Maybe that's because it's all you show them." Maybe it's all they want to see.
~ Megan Hart
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
~ Jeremiah 12:9