#circle

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#circles #drinks #house #may #ocean

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#circle #could #difficulty #even #first

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#arctic #circle #considerable #far #gulf

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#circle #circles #each #end #eternity

Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#circles #dark #ever #eyes #had

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#by the time #circle #class #far #goes

Everything has a way of coming full circle. It takes patience and perseverance to see a dream through...to close that circle. Because some dreams, like some circles, can be much bigger than others. ↗

— Karen Dale Trask

#dreams #perseverence #dreams

I never knew the difference between loving someone and being in love,” he began. “I don’t know why, because now it seems so obvious. I mean, it’s in the name: in love. When you love someone that just means you care; but when you’re in love, that means you’re a part of it.” He scanned the audience and landed on Paxton and Jade holding hands in the third row. “The feeling consumes you,” he continued. “And when you’re surrounded by that want and that need to make that other person happy, you can’t see anything else. You’re blind to all of the hate and the hurt that’s waiting on the outside. None of it matters, because in here – in love – nothing hurts.” Larson watched as a drop of his own tears fell onto the surface in front of him. “I don’t care if I’m blind for the rest of my life. I loved Owen. I’m in love with him. And even though he’s gone, I’ll never leave this place we made. ↗

— Megan Duke

#larson #larson-and-owen #megan-duke #small-circles #love

I'm really good at solitaire and I can turn my arms in full circles. ↗

— Skylar Laine

#circles #full #good #i #i can

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