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Quotes About Spiral

It's really cool to read feedback. I'm trying not to engage too much, though, because I spiral out even if the reviews are, like... positive.
~ Patti Harrison
New York City in particular is the economic engine of not just our state, but arguably the nation. If that engine stalls, this entire country could get dragged into the same downward spiral.
~ Eric Adams
Short of a sudden and widespread popular revolt, the death spiral appears unstoppable, meaning the United States as we know it will no longer exist within a decade or, at most, two.
~ Chris Hedges
When you are stuck in a spiral, to change the aspects of the spin you only need to change one thing.
~ Christina Baldwin
They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.
~ Laini Taylor
So we're racing the Clare and the Courts," said Julian. "Fantastic. Maybe there's someone else we can piss off. The Spiral Labyrinth? The Scholomance? Interpol?
~ Cassandra Clare
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
~ Germaine de Staël
The Unintended, Professor Estrella Espejo points out, pushes the envelope: within the spiral of war and loops of art is an unknown war wrapped in another, a ghost in its machine.
~ Gina Apostol
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness.
~ James Clavell
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 clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
~ Manmohan Singh
The world will spiral out from underneath you, and you will find nothing to hold on to because you are either too smart or too dumb to find God…
~ Nick McDonell
It's all part of the dance, she thought; the dust, her hands, the light that was spiraling around her: it's all part of the same wonderful dance. And I'm in it.
~ Clive Barker
The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
It is important to mention that the Maya believed, along with the Gnostics, that the center of the galaxy was a place of great spiritual significance. The greatest expression of divinity for the Maya living in the Yucatán peninsula was Hunab Ku (the highest authority). Hunab Ku lives in the center of the galaxy. Hunab Ku is represented by the spiral. This spiral form can be found throughout Mesoamerica.
~ Laurence Galian
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Every new molecule would be surrounded by its own spirals and flame like projections, and those, inevitably, would reveal molecules tinier still, always similar, never identical, fulfilling some mandate of infinite variety, a miracle of miniaturisation in which every new detail was sure to be a universe of its own, diverse and entire.
~ James Gleick
So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.
~ James O'Barr
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
~ Vanna Bonta
Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell.
~ Cormac McCarthy
down one giant spiral
~ Charles Martin
You're arguing in a circle," I said. "In a spiral," said Lamiel, "which is the best way to argue.
~ Harry Blamires
There's this spiral where you can't stop feeling horrible about your horrible self, and it makes you act more horrible.
~ Dan Chaon
One mischief always introduces another.
~ Daniel Defoe
You don't live in a castle full of spiral stairs without getting calves of adamantium.
~ Lev Grossman