Spinning Quotes - Page 2

• The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Wheels, Love Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.229, Grove Press

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• That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.

  Lauren Oliver

  Edges

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

  Christine Lahti

  Heart, Class, Shapes

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• Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Axes, World

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• The moon is at her crystal window / Spinning and weaving...

  Hilda Conkling

  Moon, Weaving, Crystals

  Hilda Conkling (1924). “Silverhorn: The Hilda Conkling Book for Other Children”

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• I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Trying, World, Kind

  Jacqueline Woodson (2006). “Behind You”, p.42, Penguin

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• I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.

  George Carlin

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to go someplace safe, someplace I could be alone and okay, and that this was impossible. My old life had changed and my new one was still in progress, altering by the second. There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Progress, Dry

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.145, Penguin

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• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Technology, Suffering, Progress

  1921 Speech, 13 Oct.

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• Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

  John Gardner

  Dream, Wall, Spinning Around

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.8, Vintage

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• Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Fall, Clouds

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.227, A&C Black

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• No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

  Mark Donohue

  Power, Car, Not Good Enough

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• I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

  Mira Sorvino

  Confused, Humble, Spinning Around

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• [The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world.

  Samuel Crompton

  Science, Perfect, Desire

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• If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

  Graham Nash

  New Life, Earth, Faces

  The Acoustic Storm Interviews, www.acousticstorm.com.

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• All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Positive, Noble

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.365, Lulu.com

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• The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Perfect, Lasts

  "Ollie (1987)". "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal., 1988.

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• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  Harold Larwood

  Real, Dark, Tunnels

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• Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.

  Dan Brown

  Faith, Believe, Simple

  "Angels and Demons". Book by Dan Brown, 2000.

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• Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Women, Grandmother

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• I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Sea, Pitching, Ships

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• Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

  Glen Mazzara

  People, Broken, World

  Source: collider.com

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• My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Book, Heart, Wheels

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• I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

  Tom Freston

  Art, People, Atoms

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• Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.

  Cornelia Funke

  Beautiful, Heart, New Day

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