Best 77 quotes in «spinning quotes» category

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

He lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes.

He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

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.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

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.

I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.

In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.

Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?

Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality.

Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheel complete, thy holy word thy distaff make for me.

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

My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

New techniques - often spinning out of technology and lack of privacy has resulted in new manipulative communication formats.

Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

Spinning out of my neuromarketing work where, based on scanning the brains of 2,000 respondents' brains using fMRI, we learned that there's a huge correlation between religion and branding - and thus the way that brands intend to generate customer evangelism are to be constructed.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

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

There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.

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

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.