Rounded Quotations

For me, the times in my life when I've been single have been more formative and crucial than I could have imagined. I can cope, function and be happy on my own. I'm highly capable. That doesn't mean I don't like being with a partner, or that I don't feel more rounded when I'm with someone. But the times on my own have been so good.

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

Jews bear children not only because the carnal election of Abraham must continue. For Jews, raising children is essential to living a rounded ethical life.

I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character.

I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.

I try to eat fruit and veggies and meat and all the different categories and have a well rounded diet.

Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.

'Thirteen' was really hard on my family. I wrote this movie about them and their flaws and imperfections and what it was like growing up. It was from one kid's perspective and not a well rounded one. You get older, and it's like, 'How dare I portray my father as being a totally vacant, careless schmuck?'

I was pleased with our runners, just across the board in different events. In field events, we had good individual efforts, but we're still looking to have rounded team efforts.

One scene with David Carradine required seven old men as extras, ... So, I rounded up these guys, and they ended up having a great time on the set. The scene was delayed, so they got to hang out with Carradine for a few hours, and he had lunch with them.

should not have rounded this number off to below $10 million, which reduced the length of the defendants' sentences.

Bryan has enjoyed much success on the soccer field because he is a complete player ? a terrific goal scorer, but also the team leader in assists. He has a wonderful work ethic and is a great example of how well balanced and well rounded a teen can be.

It has rounded the Sun for just 5 circles, that means, most of its materials are well kept at a pristine state 4.5 billion years ago.

Last year, I rounded up all of the people who deliver sonnets and had them deliver one to my girlfriend.

The astronomical scale of the amount of benefit money being lost through fraud and error is vividly brought home to taxpayers by the astonishing fact that the figures are rounded to the nearest half-a-billion pounds.

Michael doesn't have to be Justin. He's a different player, a setter, not a hitter. He has good nights and bad nights, but at this point in his career, he may be a little more rounded than Justin.

What the movie is most deeply about -- it's about our own latent possibilities of repression, stereotyping and prejudice, ... To see Americans rounded up in the streets, to see Americans put into stadiums, to see people held without habeas corpus -- to have their rights violated in such a way is such a chilling and just terrifying thing to see -- that is what one takes away, I believe, from this film.

Those with a rounded cabochon cut and bezel setting share an affinity with the U.S. and U.K. Arts and Crafts style.

We think that good exam results are very important but they don't constitute a full rounded education,

To tell you the truth, when I rounded second, I thought he had it. It looked liked he took it out of his glove. I thought he was messing with me.

When we first put the costume on, you could see the human shape underneath, so the padding gave Chewie his rounded shape, really.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

These fences were older than sin, and us. Safety levels have gone up 1,000 percent. The fences had jagged, sharp edges and the kids were often cut. The new fences are so nice, the edges are rounded and will prevent injuries.

These astoundingly beautiful photographs give a rounded portrait of Ansel Adams the person - as artist, author, teacher and spokesperson for photography,

and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner.

A lot of people say I'm not really that good on my feet. I didn't turn a lot I took him down most of the time, and that shows I'm a well rounded wrestler.

As we get further down the road, it's going to be more important to get our players as well rounded as possible, continue to get them court time. I want to put them in difficult situations, so that they know they can handle it. They handle it very well. We've got great production from everybody.

The new member education program is a good thing, it should teach students more, well rounded in what they want to do. However, you've got some groups who are just kind of, well, they act more like their fraternity or sorority is more like a local organization in that they run it like they want to run it.

By the time I rounded third, I saw they all walked off. I was the only one running. When I came around third, I knew what time it was.

I remember all the writers I started with who I was embarrassed to be around - they were so much better than me. A lot of them are no longer writing. I guess they were better rounded and had other options. Due to social discomfort, I only had the one road.

For fixtures, rounded edges and brushed finishes continue to rule the day.

For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.

We knew coming into the season that we had the nucleus to be a decent team. Then, as things rounded out, we started to see some girls really step up.

We just rounded out the world of men's. ... At a certain point, we're going to look at women's and home,

It's been a while since I had one and when I rounded first and saw Tracy hung up in-between home and third. Fortunately for us the ball finally bounced our way. It was good to come out on the winning end of one.

The relationships within the band have grown much more friendly and forgiving, and the sands of time have rounded off a few corners, shall we say.

I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,As I foretold you, were all spirits andAre melted into air, into thin air:And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolveAnd, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuffAs dreams are made on, and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep.

We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.