Circular Motion Quotes

Going on means going far, going far means returning.

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.

The power of the world always works in circles.

Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.

Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

...New Beginning to the same old story

All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion.

What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before...

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.

While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.