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Quotes About Circular

There are some stunning visual moments in 'Arrival' that are out of this world, but it's all on the earth, and it's about an academic, a woman that is dealing with a personal tragedy, but there's a circular view of time that makes things more complicated.
~ Johann Johannsson
The mystics claim that their ecstasy reveals to them a circular chamber containing a great circular book, whose spine is continuous and which follows the complete circle of the walls; but their testimony is suspect; their words, obscure. This cyclical book is God.)
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Since the chain reaction is circular, the depression becomes progressively worse. The various symptoms--sadness, decreased physical activity, sleep disturbance--feeds back into the psychological system. Hence, as he experiences sadness, his pessimism leads him to conclude, "I shall always be sad."
~ AARON T. BECK
The world is round; it has no point.
~ Adrienne E. Gusoff
Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.
~ Plotinus
If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.
~ Wallace Stegner
Nous y tournons en rond, généralement plus soucieux de chercher des coupables que de trouver des solutions.
~ Daniel Pennac
All you get from a circular argument is dizzy.
~ Darrin Bell
It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.
~ James Lee Burke
Remember, child, life is not a straight line. It cycles.
~ James Rollins
They did not realize that because of the quasi-reciprocal and circular nature of all Improbability calculations, anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.
~ Douglas Adams
I wouldn't like to live in a castle now, but I'd enjoy a visit to Restormel in Cornwall in its 13th century prime. It's a circular castle with the rooms built against the outer walls and quite intimate in size. Life there wouldn't follow the pattern of more classic castle design.
~ Jo Beverley
The claim that memes are units because they "replicate themselves with reliability and fecundity" 41 manages to be circular, empty and daft all at once: quite an achievement.
~ Raymond Tallis
It's really nice to see something come full circle.
~ Laura Whitmore
I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
~ Frances McDormand
Stories as written are progressive, sentence must build upon sentence as brick upon brick, yet the beauty of this life in its endless mystery is circular. Sun & moon, spheres endlessly circling. Black man, full circle; white man, bisected circle; life, the third circle, on & on, & round & round.
~ Richard Flanagan
You only followed where you were going if you wanted to get back to where you had started from, and she knew that was impossible.
~ Julian Barnes
The spiral stairs looked like a robot's asshole.
~ Karin Slaughter
Time isn't circular," she said to Dr. Kellet. "It's like a… palimpsest.
~ Kate Atkinson
In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.
~ David Suzuki
Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
~ Flann O'Brien
But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily
One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.
~ Maxine Kumin
My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out.
~ Steven Wright