| "Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all." »Matthew Arnold |
| "Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love." »Jalal ud-Din Rumi |
| "Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter." »Jonathan Swift |
| "Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone That way, he learns that 'wishing' isn't going to save our national forests." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible." »Pearl Bailey |
| "J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it." »Spider-Man |
| "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone." »Sigmund Freud |
| "In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us." »Flora Edwards |
| "If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end." »Unknown |
| "Life is like a vicious circle.... only the ones on the edge know what it is to face Highs and lows" »Siddharth Astir |
| "Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught." »William Shakespeare |
| "Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." »Mark Twain |
| "I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express." »Caldwell O'Keefe |
| "With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." »William Lloyd Garrison |
| "People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman." »Erma Bombeck |
| "When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight." »Michael Bridge |
| "I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity." »William Adams |
| "There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel." »Franklin P. Adams |
| "For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him." »George Orwell |
| "Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce." »John Pearson |
| "Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed." »William James |
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