Spiral Quotes
139 Spiral quotes by 123 unique authors
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That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Human beings are born and begin their evolution through the great spiral of consciousness, moving from archaic to magic to mythic to rational to perhaps…
— Ken Wilber
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It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles.…
— Rob Brezsny
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Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!
— Marianne Williamson
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The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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When you allow circumstances beyond your control to determine your attitude and actions, you risk plunging into a downward spiral of hasty decisions and faulty…
— Nick Vujicic
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One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of…
— William Segal
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Spiral minds are harder to twist.
— Kris Saknussemm
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...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and…
— W. Edwards Deming
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Like a weighted diver sinking in an oceanof mediocrity, under the pressure of men withgelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shapedconvictions, non-committal souls and non-committinghands ...
— Ayn Rand
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Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner…
— Robert Hunter
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You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.
— Ray LaMontagne
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Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed…
— Brent L. Top
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Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like…
— Annie Dillard
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Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as…
— William Butler Yeats
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Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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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…
— Simon Mainwaring
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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…
— Manmohan Singh
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Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete…
— Dennis Miller
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I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral…
— Billy Childish
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Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.
— Ozzy Osbourne
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I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five…
— Nicole Krauss
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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…
— Stuart Kauffman
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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…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Who Wrote These Spiral Quotes
123 authors contributed a total of 139 Spiral Quotes, led by these top contributors: