Best 77 quotes in «spinning quotes» category

Every atom in your body spins and dances like a bee around the queen, like a whirling dervish, like the stars spiraling in a galaxy. Yet why do you sit motionlessly watching Dancing With the Stars?

Spinner parts, who do not themselves become dizzy, have the job of spinning internally to send out feelings or impulses to all the other parts, the main person, or a group of selected parts. Many of the “booby traps" or “fail-safe" programmes involve spinning. Often, when a programme (that is, a particular training) is in operation, the survivor feels dizzy, as though something or someone is “spinning" inside his or her head. If this is happening to you, you can speak to the spinner and ask that part to stop spinning or to slow down the spin. If this does not work, ask to speak with whoever is making the spinner part spin. This strategy, of working up through the chain of command, applies to mind control treatment recovery in general. Another tactic you can use is to ask the spinner to spin in the opposite direction, which will often put away whatever is being spun. If permitted by those in charge, a spinner can also replace whatever lesson is being spun with something positive, such as a feeling of calmness, taken from a positive memory.

I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning

My stomach gave a violent start and turned into a hunk of ice. The world was spinning around me, and blobs of faces and visions of things past were dancing in the red mist that covered the lot. It swirled into a mass of colors and I felt myself swaying on my feet. Someone cried, "Glory, look at the kid!" And the ground rushed up to meet me very suddenly.

I don't dream of a ceiling fan which is always here spinning above my head. I dream of a cool weather

People say- 'NASA lies.' I say- 'the moon knows it all. Look at the moon and forget the spinning flat world.

Sometimes, I imagine that the universe is like an unmoved, round bucket! The water inside is like the space all around; the space is moving as the water in the bucket. The spinning planets are like the dipped and moving mug and the sun is like the accidentally fallen bug in the middle of the bucket!

Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.

There are no limits in the growing and there are no limits in the shrinking. There is no limit in the speed. There is only vibration and spinning. There is spinning into bigger and spinning into smaller. Spinning into shrinking can go well beyond the quantum unit. There is simply no smallest unit, no smallest anything, by Hadien.

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit...

The world is thinning and the earth...it's still spinning my world is thinning and it’s all because of one person I’m missing.

Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.

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

With programmes such as flooding of emotions, the parts involved might not feel safe in turning the programme off. But you might be able to negotiate that they turn it down so it is barely noticeable. Or you could ask the spinner parts to spin in the opposite direction, so that they spin the effects back into the part who originally held those feelings rather than out to the rest of the system. Or you could insert a hidden drain and start draining out some of the feelings. Or you could find a way for the parts doing their jobs to implement the programme without doing harm. p126-127

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.

Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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.

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

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