Encircling Ring Quotes & Sayings

Action without study is fatal ... — Mary Beard

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete. — Charles Dickens

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. — George S. Patton

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. — William Congreve

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility. — Olafur Eliasson

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was itself under a spell
so unnaturally, up and down the whole prospect of known and rather ugly objects, the blankness and the silence lasted. Had they ever, he asked himself, the hard-faced houses, which had begun to look livid in the dim dawn, had they ever spoken so little to any need of his spirit? Great builded voids, great crowded stillnesses put on, often, in the heart of cities, for the small hours, a sort of sinister mask, and it was of this large collective negation that Brydon presently became conscious
all the more that the break of day was, almost incredibly, now at hand, proving to him what night he had made of it. — Henry James

The plan is, by a combination of fighting, bargaining and well-timed strokes of treachery, to acquire a ring of bases completely encircling one or other of the rival states, and then to sign a pact of friendship with that rival and remain on peaceful terms for so many years as to lull suspicion to sleep. During this time rockets loaded with atomic bombs can be assembled at all the strategic spots; — George Orwell

What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity. — Scott Russell Sanders

She'd never met an adult who claimed to know so little about so much. — Peternelle Van Arsdale