Quotes About Circumference

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Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.

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Of course. We go around and around in this world, and here we go again.

The thought of a ring around my finger always made me feel tied tight, because rings had no openings to get out of.

A circle is the only geometric shape defined by its centre. No chicken and egg about it, the centre came first, the circumference follows. The earth, by definition, has a centre. And only the fool that knows it can go wherever he pleases, knowing the centre will hold him down, stop him flying out of orbit. But when your sense of centre shifts, comes whizzing to the surface, the balance has gone. The balance has gone. The balance my baby has gone.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

centre round or around. 'Their argument centres around the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act' (The Times). Centre indicates a point, and a point cannot encircle anything. Make it 'centre on' or 'revolve around'.

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

At rest, we know that its circumference is equal to p times the diameter. Once the merry-go-round is set into motion, however, the outer rim travels faster than the interior and hence, according to relativity, should shrink more than the interior, distorting the shape of the merry-go-round. This means that the circumference has shrunk and is now less than p times the diameter; that is, the surface is no longer flat. Space is curved.

From the shadow length in Alexandria, the angle A can be measured. But from simple geometry ("if two parallel straight lines are transected by a third line, the alternate interior angles are equal"), angle B equals angle A. So by measuring the shadow length in Alexandria, Eratosthenes concluded that Syene was A = B = 7° away on the circumference of the Earth.

Take Christ from Christianity, and you disembowel it; there is practically nothing left. Christ is the centre of Christianity, all else is circumference." (Basic Christianity, page 27)

That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

as round as the moon.

The Hindu believes that every soul is a circle whose circumference is nowhere, but whose centre is located in the body, and that death means the change of this centre from body to body.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.