#circles

Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles. ↗

— John Robert Gregg

#combinations #hooks #indicated

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals. ↗

— John Hartford

#circles #everything #happens #rhythms #spirals

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. ↗

— Pat Paulsen

#assuming #circles #control #country #either

It's okay to spin around and around in the same place. Just so long as you're singing your heart out. THAT's what life's all about. ↗

— Chica Umino

#circles #honey-and-clover #inspirational #locusts #inspirational

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#antagonistic #circle #circles #closed #contemporary

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#appreciate #being #circles #computer #designer

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things. ↗

— Philip Slater

#commercialism #economy #endless-circles #failed-systems #greed

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#courage #fortitude #strength #valor #courage

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#circles #life #orbits #life

That second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money, or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker! there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys. Let me live onward; you shall find that, though slower, the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims. If a man should dedicate himself to the payment of notes, would not this be injustice? Does he owe no debt but money? And are all claims on him to be postponed to a landlord's or a banker's? ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#debts #priorities #faith