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Quotes About Circumference

The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That's what I'll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Time is the measurement of the rotation of the Earths Surface around the Circumference of it's Axis.
~ Unknown
A circle is the longest distance to same point.
~ Tom Stoppard
That's what's new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that's over. Completion is the end. We're closing the circle around everyone—it's a totalitarian nightmare.
~ Dave Eggers
You cannot measure anything unless you have a point. So, if the center is absent, there is no circumference at all. That is pure and simple basic arithmetic.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
all the members of society have a direct interest in the manners of each of its individuals, because each one is a radiating point, the center of a circle which he fills with pleasure or annoyance, not only for those who voluntarily enter it but for those, who, in the promiscuous movements of society, are caught within its circumference.
~ Horace Mann
then into a space where there seemed to be nothing but mist. When we came to a wall of yew twice as high as Aurelius himself, we followed it. I noticed a sparkling in the grass and on the leaves: The sun had come out. The moisture in the air began to evaporate and the circle of visibility grew wider by the minute. Our wall of yew had led us full circle around an empty space; we had arrived back at the same walkway we had entered by.
~ Diane Setterfield
I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Good girls are found in every corner of earth. But unfortunately earth is round.
~ Unknown
Greenland's coast is more than twenty-seven thousand miles long, a distance greater than the circumference of the earth at the equator.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
The number ?, which is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter, is irrational, though this fact was not proved until 1768. Many other examples could be given.
~ Morris Kline
What goes around, comes around Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Quod circumvehitur, revehitur.
~ Paul Beatty
Whatever may be his [man's] true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution (change and extinction). This is the character of all life and being - each is at once the centre and the circumference; the point to which all things are contained. - "On Life
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
~ 1 Kings 7:15
He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
~ 1 Kings 7:23
He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
~ 2 Chronicles 4:2
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.
~ Jeremiah 52:21