Quotes with circles

  • I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
  • There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
  • In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
  • Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
  • In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
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  • Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Audre Lorde Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Frank Dane Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • C. Wright Mills By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
    The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Brad Feld In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • A. N. Wilson In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Sher Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Beverly Jones Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
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  • Aldous Huxley Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Audre Lorde There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Katharine Whitehorn There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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