Quotes About Spiral

The best way to describe time, therefore, is not as cyclical or linear, but rather as a spiral. it is both cycling and simultaneously progressing forward or evolving upward.

For in grief nothing 'stays put,"' C. S. Lewis writes. "One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

Like depression, loneliness arises from unhappiness creating thoughts feeding into the insula, deepening the negative spiral of thoughts and feelings.

We recall that there are two ways of going around: The spiral is positive repetition, ever-evolving in an upward trend. The spinning wheel in the snow is the negative repetition, ever wasting energy.

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

Was it a tiny shifting spiral of light?

The ascending spiral, one of the central images of early American letters and employed especially by Emerson, is probably an unconscious piece of every American's personal mythology. Its shorthand name is progress.

Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

The Whirlpool galaxy beautifully displays its spiral nature while mysteriously hiding exactly how it spins the way it does.

On the other hand the usual flat whisk is awkward for tall, narrow pots, and it, too, is weak at scouring into corners. The spiral cream whip ... is a little better at reaching out of the way spots, but it defies firm handling. If anything ever sticks to the pot, you will feel as if you are working with a wet noodle.

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 of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune Terrapin Station...

She felt, at times, that what had seemed like an infinity of choice turned out to be a funnel, life narrowing itself one bad decision at a time, each mistake cutting the options by half, spiraling her ever downward until there was nowhere left to fall but into a small, dark hole that had no bottom. Choosing

After the agreement fell apart, the disorganized producers lost all incentive to curtail production, feeding another downward spiral in oil prices.

Andromeda was discovered to be another island universe, another spiral galaxy almost identical to our own, and one of the more than 100 billion other galaxies that, we now know, exist in our observable universe.

It's more like a corkscrew than a path!

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.

I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.

And so began a vicious economic spiral. "It's a marvel, looking back on it now," Lippmann would later write ruefully, "that we could ever have so completely thought that a boom under such treacherous conditions was permanent."126

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

But if we remember that to say is to renew, we will have no trouble defining a spiral: it's a circle that rises without ever closing.

Life spiraling into Nothingness, infinitely yearning for what it cannot have.