#circle

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#been #circles #david #declined #domestic

You remember how he used to be girl on either arm? You really don't see that guy too much anymore. Why do you think that is? He's waiting for you. I know you're dealing with stuff but you cannot ask him to wait forever! Unless of course, you're okay with him pulling away." "What if it doesn't work out? What if it ends up like you and Javier?" "Well at least we gave it a shot. And so it didn't work out, so what? Now, we can move on give or take the occasional booty call." "I just don't wanna lose what we have, you know?" "Girl please! What exactly do you have, really?" "A friendship." "No. What you and I have is a friendship. What you and castle have is a holding pattern. How long can you circle before the fuel runs out? ↗

— Richard Castle

#love #waiting #friendship

Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture book opens to a width that effectively places the child at the center of a closed circle - that of mother's body, arms, and the picture book... That circle, so private and intimate, is a place apart form the demands and stresses of daily life, a sanctuary in and from which the child can explore the many worlds offered in picture books. Despite all of our society's technological advances, it still just takes one child, one book, and one reader, to create this unique space, to work this everyday magic. ↗

— Martha V. Parravano

#circle #mother #reading #life

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end. The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#life #life

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#circle #exactly #praised #round

There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs. ↗

— Keith Lehrer

#circle #exit

Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#friendships #ideals #ours #united

I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#come #different #directors #doing #end

It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have. ↗

— Cliff Richard

#circle #friends #i #i do #important

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#both #embraces #encircle #firmament #foe