Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.

Cecelia Ahern

I suppose it’s easier to see the way out of anything when you’ve found your way out of that maze. When you’re stuck in the middle, in a series of dead-ends making circles, it’s difficult to make any sense of anything.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

David Rittenhouse

I will have no circles except the zodiac, on which I will have the true latitude and longitude of each planet pointed out by its proper index.

Jon Evans

It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil.

Max Gillespie

His name in football circles in Hampton Roads is well-respected.

Vicente Fox

If we keep wasting time, if we keep running in circles ... we will keep having more poverty,

Al Franken

There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong, tend to be people who didn't take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.

Carl von Clausewitz

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You’ve got food stuck in your teeth,” Vee told Marcie. “In the crack between your two front teeth. Looks like chocolate Ex-Lax …

Becca Fitzpatrick

Hey now, none of that. You know I don't have one evil bone in my body. Only two hundred and six of them?

Becca Fitzpatrick

It would be like a cleansing diet. The problem was, the only diet I'd ever been on backfired. Once I tried to go an entire month without chocolate. Not one bite. At the end of two weeks, I broke down and binged on more chocolate that I would have eaten in three months. I hoped my chocolate-free diet didn't foreshadow what would happen if I tried to avoid Patch.

B. B. King

Being a blues singer is like being black two times.

B. B. King

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

Bill Shorten

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

Bill Crawford

There are two ways to look at most problems... 'Oh Crap!' or, 'Good Information!,' and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.

Bill Crawford

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

Phil Zepeda

Our relief is not going to be a matter of weeks and months, but probably much longer than that.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

David Friedman

People no longer seem shocked by expressions of overt bigotry,

Erick Young

Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to be very much longer in astronomical terms before planets start forming.

Eric Kuzmack

Some of the things you monitor no longer mean the same thing.

Beck

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.

Barry Ritholtz

'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?'

Barry Lopez

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.