#circles

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#against #belonged #chance #circle #circles

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. ↗

— Beverly Jones

#attained #benefit #circles #dog #elusive

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#certain #changeover #circles #could #expect

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#always #been #being #character #character actor

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#because #circles #dictionary #driving #end

They say you can't square the circle, but I don't believe that. I'm melting the golden ratio into a molar. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #golden-ratio #humor #squares #teeth

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#invented #like #maze #obstacles #ones

I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles. ↗

— Kiernan Shipka

#circles #few #friends #i #just

The interwoven spheres and vines ran along the bottom. I'd done some research, and I'd found this motif everywhere. These overlapping circles were ancient, tracing back to Pythagorean geometry--geometry, a measure of the world. In more mystical terms, the shape had always evoked tghe place where world overlap: dreaming with waking, death with life, the visible with the unseen. [p. 362] ↗

— Kim Edwards

#death

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club. ↗

— Howard Dean

#candidates #circles #club #country #country club