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Quotes About Circles

Google helps us sort the Internet by providing a sense of hierarchy to information. Facebook uses its algorithms and its intricate understanding of our social circles to filter the news we encounter. Amazon bestrides book publishing with its overwhelming hold on that market.
~ Franklin Foer
It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.
~ Mitt Romney
Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
~ Frank Dane
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.
~ Georg Simmel
At first I thought that my life was going around in circles. Then I got to looking closer, and it's actually a downward spiral.
~ Unknown
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
~ Tom Waits
La pedra, i no els pensaments, és el que fa cercles en el gorg.
~ Tomaž Šalamun
Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear . . .
~ Tracy Letts
Oooo. What a beautiful image. Queen Diamond with a chain of silver circles wound around her snout and frozen to her scales. He closed his eyes and imagined the blissful quiet.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
the first circle, I had written the word ideation, and above the third was implementation. The middle circle is what we found most fascinating, or perhaps novel, and above it was the word activation. We labeled this the "Three Stages of Work." Each circle was filled with half a dozen other words to describe what it meant.
~ Patrick Lencioni
I knew it wasn't going to be easy to fence a stolen grand piano in outlaw biker circles.
~ Unknown
Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone.
~ Yann Martel
We keep going around in circles, but nothing will ever change. I know that our relationship is over, it's almost a relief. Beatrice has won.
~ Unknown
He looked down at the pattern of black, interlocking rings on the brown carpet.
~ Unknown
They were fine and slender. At any given moment they stopped every bit as much lines, every bit much in the same state as at the beginning. Interrupted, always interrupted not because they terminated, but because no one could take them to the end. Circles were more perfect, less tragic and didn't move her enough. Circles were the work of man, finished before death and not even God could finish them better. While straight, fine, freestanding lines – were like thoughts.
~ Clarice Lispector
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
~ Herman Wouk
It is St. Catherine's Day: in honor of the saint who was threatened with martyrdom on a wheel, we all walk in circles to our destination. At least, that's the theory. He has never seen anyone over the age of twelve actually doing it.
~ Hilary Mantel
Madeline traveled with ease through dozens of overlapping social circles, making both lifelong friends and lifetime enemies along the way; probably more of the latter.
~ Liane Moriarty
I try not to sleep. It disturbs the circles I'm growing under my eyes.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Good God, she really did walk in circles. A pang of tenderness centered in Gabriel's chest like an ache. He wanted all her circles to lead back to him.
~ Lisa Kleypas
As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.
~ Elisha Gray
Or in my grandparents's case, the circling worked like this: as they paced around the deck the first time, Lefty and Desdemona were still brother and sister. The second time, the were bride and bridegroom. And the third, they were husband and wife.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
You can't get your arms to stop making circles in the air if you never say good-bye.
~ Jennifer Clement
While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.
~ Gracie Gold