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Quotes About Revolving

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.
~ Jim DeMint
Passing from the tyranny of Charles I to the tyranny of Cromwell is like taking a turn in a revolving door; the exertion merely puts you back where you started. If every jobholder in Washington were driven into the Potomac tonight, their places would be taken tomorrow by others precisely like them.
~ Albert Jay Nock
At the time, few Americans gave much thought to preserving legacies for history. The new was worshipped, the old usually cast aside. To the dismay of archivists and preservationists, the White House of the nineteenth century was a revolving door of styles and motifs, and successive occupants discarded past desiderata with little consideration for the desires of future generations for artifacts.
~ Zachary Karabell
Did life's penurious length Italicize its sweetness, The men that daily live Would stand so deep in joy That it would clog the cogs Of that revolving reason Whose esoteric belt Protects our sanity.
~ Emily Dickinson
His letter to Rice began, "I have on hand a great project for the World's Fair in Chicago. I am going to build a vertically revolving wheel 250' in dia." Nowhere in this letter, however, did he reveal the true dimension of his vision:
~ Erik Larson
The world spun around and he spun around too.
~ Louis Sachar
I know there is a special bond between us, one that the others envy and resent; it is because she and I both stand at the gateway, I of my life, she of her death, and we both know that it is a revolving door.
~ S.P. Somtow
All things are possible, except for skiing through a revolving door.
~ Anonymous
other, as he went around the house to
~ Sandra Brown
that inner stillness which Charles Morgan describes as "the stilling of the soul within the activities of the mind and body so that it might be still as the axis of a revolving wheel is still.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.
~ Mahesh Bhatt
I can't analyse the secret of success. In my style of working, I stick to the basics and make stories revolving around the hero.
~ S. S. Rajamouli
I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
~ Lefty Gomez
Life was a revolving mystery, sometimes terrifying, sometimes maddening. But always provocative. Interesting. And although its meaning seemed beyond my grasp, it never seemed meaningless.
~ Christina Meldrum, Madapple
When I leave the hotel the porter stands beside the revolving door, primed to greet me, like a talking fork.
~ Joseph Roth
If the world should stop revolving, spinning slowly down to dust "I'd spend the end with you, "And when the world was through "Then one by one the stars would all go out, "Then you and I would simply fly away.
~ Ben Bova
Let's be clear about this, and let's be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.
~ Kamala Harris
A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active.
~ James Forrestal
When assholes will be put into orbit, you're not even close to stopping revolving! (Michel Audiart)
~ Fabrice
Luck's a revolving door, you just need to know when it's your time to walk through.
~ Stan Lee
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
~ Henry James
We are sealed in our own little melancholy atmospheres, like planets, and revolving around the sun, our common but distant desire.
~ Jack Kerouac
Not the scream of a startled little girl, mind you, but a manly scream: the scream of a fellow who has caught his enormous dong in a revolving door while charging
~ Christopher Moore
Not the scream of a startled little girl, mind you, but a manly scream: the scream of a fellow who has caught his enormous dong in a revolving door while charging in to save a baby that was on fire or something.
~ Christopher Moore