#circles

If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#both #both sides #causes #circles #extremist

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” “Hmm . . . What do you think, Harry?” said Luna, looking thoughtful. “What? Isn’t there just a password?” “Oh no, you’ve got to answer a question,” said Luna. “What if you get it wrong?” “Well, you have to wait for somebody who gets it right,” said Luna. “That way you learn, you see?” “Yeah . . . Trouble is, we can’t really afford to wait for anyone else, Luna.” “No, I see what you mean,” said Luna seriously. “Well then, I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning.” “Well reasoned,” said the voice, and the door swung open. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#flame #luna-lovegood #phoenix #ravenclaw #riddles

Fashion goes round in circles. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#fashion #goes #round

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles! ↗

— John Mason Brown

#circles #city #goes #how #laid

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#baseball #because #circles #could #guys

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. ↗

— Robert Frost

#circles #forward #himself #how #indicates

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#block #change #circles #come #doing

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

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

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles. ↗

— Henry Sweet

#dialect #educated #london #spoken