Spirals Quotes - Page 9

• But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Offering, Should Have, Ideas

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.155, Macmillan

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• …It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Simple, People, Goes On

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• Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.

  Heather Mills

  Children, Divorce, Culture

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• The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Government, May, Gallery

  "You've got to have faith". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Winning

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn’t have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Motivation, Missing, Would Be

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• Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

  Flann O'Brien

  Past, Men, Play

  Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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• Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

  William Butler Yeats

  Earthquakes, Toil, Shells

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• When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

  Mary J. Blige

  Want, Checks, Check Yourself

  "There's something about Mary". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2008.

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• The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

  Billy Graham

  World, My Heart Aches

  "Billy Graham’s Prayer Letter To America", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2012.

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