Best Spirals Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“CIRCLES OF LIFE Everything Turns, Rotates, Spins, Circles, Loops, Pulsates, Resonates, And Repeats. Circles Of life, Born from Pulses Of light, Vibrate To Breathe, While Spiraling Outwards For Infinity Through The lens Of time, And into A sea Of stars And Lucid Dreams. Poetry by Suzy Kassem”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.”

Eye America Life Is Turns Difficult Blind Silent Customers Corporate Passive Spirals Corporate America Blind Eyes Downward Spiral

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.”

Ifs World Giving Real Clear Danger Lessons Pressure Severe Spirals Protectionism Downturn Downward Spiral

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series”

May Facts Left Numbers Picks Series Eight Accidents Scales Pairs Spirals Winding Up

Book:At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

Source: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity

“Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.”

“In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.”

Enough Facts Too Much Demand Latter Unemployment Spirals Insufficient Counterparts

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.”

Art Modern Wind Demand Tradition Visuals Spirals Visual Art Art History Modern Art

Author:Igor Babailov

“When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.”

Writing Matter Kids Mother Waiting Records Five Special Hundred Sentences Punishment Kitchen Minimum Notebook Drawers Spirals Transgression

Book:Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

Source: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

“Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole”

Mean Whole Individual Improvement Feedback Beneficial Spirals Benign

Book:Dark Age Ahead

Source: Dark Age Ahead

“Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.”

Trying Play Lost Speech Despair Balls Senators Apostles Reproach Louisiana Spirals Wailing Billiards

Author:Huey Long

“You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.”

Deals Becoming Easier Fees Spirals Get Money Auditors Theta

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.”

“Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.”

“Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas.”

Science Existence Information Computer Chaos Access Analysis Computer Science Spirals Processing Information Processing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.”

World Way Culture Shells Dna Galaxy Ratios Spirals Snail Milky Way

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.”

Peace Violence Kings Weakness Hatred Ultimate Non Violence Spirals Being At Peace Descending Violence And Peace Media Violence

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.”

Enough Dies Lucky Spirals Just Live Dreary

Author:Jerry Stahl

“Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never knew you had. If you're careful, Rust or Go Missing will keep you on the edge of your head.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Fire Missing Edges Careful Brown Lilies Rust Spirals Cerebral Synapses

Author:Graham Foust

“And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.”

Design Shapes Circles Etc Spirals Triangles Cones

Author:Giacomo Balla

“I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.”

Ifs Persons Felt Mets Squares Parliament Digging Spirals Intervening

Author:Mike Todd, Jr.

“Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.”

Courses Pilots Composer Spirals Descending Sensationalism

Author:Constant Lambert

“Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.”

Obvious Never Quit Subtlety Never Ending Spirals

Author:Rex Stout

“I didnt have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didnt know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.”

Knows Firsts Wanted Sound Levels Creative Industry Broke Music Industry Spirals Being Broke

Author:Skylar Grey

“Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.”

Running Sides Numbers Picks Extraordinary Bottom Scales Proportion Centre Ratios Spirals Recurring Sunflower Cones Pineapples

Author:Charles Jencks

“I remember in 37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.”

Bigs Remember Used Five Air Car New York Used To Be Bus Cents Spirals Great Day Staircases Trolleys Spiral Staircases

Author:Tiny Tim

“The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.”

“There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.”

Kind Games Practicals Spirals

Author:Tom Waits

“The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.”

Has Beens Desire Cases Conditions Stable Requirements Spirals Covetousness Substitution Ascending

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.”

Motivational Success Growth Progress Journey Mountain Finals Fulfillment Destination Perpetual Continuing Summit Arriving Spirals Final Destination

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.”

Men Looks Impossible Modern Hero Over It Heroic Absurdity Lowest Spirals Modern Man Lowest Point

Author:Vaclav Havel

“We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.”

Helping Justice Situation Resources Available Department Assistance Spirals

Author:Valerie Jarrett

“When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.”

Needs One Thing Aspect Stuck Spirals

Author:Christina Baldwin

“If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.”

Ifs Feet Gas Spirals Pedals Snowball

Author:Sam Altman

“If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.”

Ifs Eye Law Evil Spirals Eye For An Eye

Author:Pope Francis

“I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into not being able to be as happy a person as I think I deserve to be, so I tend to watch things like 30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Anything Tina Fey's involved in. And Parks and Rec. I love comedies!”

Thinking Kind Persons Shows Able Watches Comedy Rocks Involved Deserve Heavy Parks Melancholy Thick Spirals Unbreakable Fey Schmidt Parks And Rec

Author:Sara Bareilles

“Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”

Long Might Path Twists Tricky Spirals Raindrops Long Love Windowpane

Author:Kevin Barry

“There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.”

Has Beens Moving Community Civilization Blame Minorities Spirals Downward Spiral

Author:David Oyelowo

“My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.”

Goal Support Caught Profit Boss Employers Spirals

Author:Jerome Kerviel

“Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity”

Kind Dark Accepting Madness Mad Deny Insane Limitation Insanity Sanity Quests Spirals

Book:The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty

Source: The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty

“Contact with the sacred occurs in the stillness of the heart and mind. If there is any real destination to the spiritual quest, it is this point of silence, the middle of the spiral, the center of the self. ... The only map that does the spiritual traveler any good is one that leads to the center.”

Ifs Mind Heart Doe Real Self Spiritual Spirituality Silence Middle Sacred Contact Maps Destination Stillness Quests Traveler Heart And Mind Spirals

Author:Christina Baldwin

“I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that I carry with me on every project I do, and I take notes just so that if I have to relive a scene, if I have to go back, I know what I did.”

Ifs Knows Actors Fun Careers Scene Projects Fellows Notes Notebook Spirals

Author:Anna Chlumsky

“The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.”

Thinking Forgiveness Rebel Reconciliation Spirals Retaliation

Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.”

Setting Settings Employment Certainty Rising Mechanism Inherent Wages Vicious Spirals Bargaining Rising Prices

Author:William Beveridge

“And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.”

Way Looks Spirals Vulture Wheeling

Book:The Songlines

Source: The Songlines

“No, my favorite scene was Brienne finding Arya and The Hound. I thought that the writing and the dialogue and the confusion that spirals into the fight was such a cool scene. I knew I was gonna film it in Iceland and I did a lot of - I really scouted and climbed around Iceland to find those locations and I just couldn't wait to do that.”

Writing Film Fighting Waiting Scene Findings My Favorite Dialogue Confusion Location Spirals Hounds Iceland Brienne

Author:Alex Graves

“One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.”

Littles Real Too Much Keys Educational Factors Feedback Spirals Educational System Downward Spiral

Author:Randy Pausch

“Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times.”

Body Bigs Social Results Talking Taken Media Competition Social Media Frustrating Body Image Surfing Spirals Bikinis Downward Spiral

Author:Coco Ho

“Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.”

“The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control. My heart aches for America and its deceived people. The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. In Jonah's day, Nineveh was the lone world superpower-wealthy, unconcerned, and self-centered. When the Prophet Jonah finally traveled to Nineveh and proclaimed God's warning, people heard and repented. I believe the same thing can happen once again, this time in our nation. It's something I long for.”

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