Spiral Quotes
139 Spiral quotes by 123 unique authors
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When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.
— Mary J. Blige
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the…
— Vanna Bonta
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There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure…
— Brandon Boyd
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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all.…
— Jo Brand
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You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well.…
— Alex Grey
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it…
— Martin Luther
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Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.
— Unknown Author
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one…
— Stephen Covey
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The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her…
— Susan Faludi
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The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes…
— Richey Edwards
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This government does not believe that public safety is enhanced by carrying weapons. In fact, it has been a long-standing Canadian government practice to discourage…
— Anne McLellan
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Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In fact, violence merely…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that…
— Barack Obama
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has…
— James Russell Lowell
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It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins…
— Charles Eisenstein
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There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental…
— Bill Whittle
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I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.
— Rose Byrne
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If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger…
— Petra Nemcova
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I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn’t have…
— Chris Guillebeau
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Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
— Julia Margaret Cameron
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The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding
— Daniel Libeskind
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Wrote These Spiral Quotes
123 authors contributed a total of 139 Spiral Quotes, led by these top contributors: