Whirling Quotes
53 Whirling quotes by 48 unique authors
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Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you…
— Pindar
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Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
— Unknown Author
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I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.
— Scott Weiland
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That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by…
— Tycho Brahe
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Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing…
— John Muir
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her…
— Shannon Hale
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to…
— Sinclair Lewis
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Jack came whirling in like a little gay tornado with Duchess following him.
— P. C. Cast
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...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of…
— Janet Frame
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Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in my hand?” “No.”…
— Gaelen Foley
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Shut up," Morgan said, whirling on the woman and pointing the sword at her. "Shut up, you shrill harpy, before I aid you in doing…
— Lynn Kurland
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Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about…
— Unknown Author
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But since then, it seemed he had been caught up in a hurricane, whirling from one thing to another with scarcely enough time to catch…
— Brian Falkner
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After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now,…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
— Charles Dickens
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Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet,…
— Rick Riordan
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and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive…
— Annie Proulx
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Told you not to tell her.” “That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship.” “Build a relationship.” Ryder snorted as…
— Nora Roberts
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But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping…
— Margaret Mitchell
Who Wrote These Whirling Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 53 Whirling Quotes, led by these top contributors: