Vortex Quotes

61 quotes by 48 authors

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day. — Julian Casablancas
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. — Ezra Pound
The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams… — Lord Kelvin
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out,… — Henry Ward Beecher
The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. — James Madison
Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs… — Russell Kirk
To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the… — Erich Maria Remarque
In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box. — Stephen Baxter
Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones — Ivan Chtcheglov
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant… — Aberjhani
What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook… — C. Wright Mills
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink… — Jon Lee Anderson
Once you start deliberately offering thought, then you can never offer enough action to keep up with the thought. Once you access the Energy that… — Esther Hicks
The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will… — David Deida
It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human history. Only as… — Ismail al-Faruqi
I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so… — Monica Potter
My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness — Austin Osman Spare
The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like,… — Devin Townsend
Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an… — Esther Hicks
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex,… — Barbara Amiel

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