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Quotes About Circumference

The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
preceding affections, in the world of spirit. A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote enhanced when he meant increased. He was a prick.
~ Joseph Heller
AÅŸa cum nisipul rodea lemnul pereÅ£ilor ÅŸi grinzile, la fel gelozia îi rodea sufletul, f?candu-l s? semene cu o oal? goal? pus? pe sob?.
~ K?b? Abe
God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.
~ Joseph Campbell
The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!
~ Herman Melville
My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out.
~ Steven Wright
We'll meet you up there. When you come around.
~ Richard Powers
To call the place an anthill would be like calling the Versailles Palace a single-family home. Earthen ramparts rose almost to the tops of the surrounding trees--a hundred feet at least. The circumference could have accommodated a Roman hippodrome. A steady stream of soldiers and drones swarmed in and out of the mound. Some carried fallen trees. One, inexplicably, was dragging a 1967 Chevy Impala.
~ Rick Riordan
But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum ... an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.
~ Jean Baudrillard
But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.
~ Jean Baudrillard
My business is circumference.
~ Emily Dickinson
. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
~ Benjamin E. Mays
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
~ Empedocles
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
~ Blaise Pascal
When a man falls in love suddenly his whole centre changes. Up to that point he has probably referred everything to himself--considered things from his own point. When he falls in love the whole thing is shifted; he becomes a part of the circumference--perhaps even the whole circumference; someone else becomes the centre.
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.
~ Ann Petry
They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That—is
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Son eras sobre eras, y tiempos tras tiempos, y sólo hay que andar sobre la circunferencia de un círculo que alberga la verdad en el punto del centro.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
~ Meryl Streep
her in a wide circle, heart thumping.
~ Lisa Unger
She was on the outside here too, just like at school. Even in the circular room, with all the fish swimming around her, she was on the outside. She was in the middle, but on the outside.
~ Louis Sachar
By degrees, the bitterness at my heart diffused itself to the circumference of the circle in which my life went its cheerless mechanical round.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Eratosthenes was the first to use a scientific method to calculate the circumference of the earth
~ Roderick Beaton