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  • Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

    Fear   Real   Believe  
  • The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.

    Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.124, Hachette UK
  • If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”
  • The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

    Real   Lying   Training  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”
  • The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented. If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.

    Loss   Desire   Identity  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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?

    Thinking   Progress   Dry  
    Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.145, Penguin
  • I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

  • For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.

    Yoga   Class   Names  
  • When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.

    Eye   Fire   Light  
    'Sonnets pour Hèléne' (1578) bk. 2, no. 42
  • I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn’t going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.

  • I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

    Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks
  • 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.

  • But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

    Dream   Reality   Mad  
    Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.254, Ballantine Books
  • The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

    Air   Water   Spinning  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”
  • You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

    Insomnia   Long   Mind  
    H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3207, Delphi Classics
  • The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.

    Death   Time   Fiction  
    Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books
  • These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

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

    Second presidential debate, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.
  • No spinning," I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.

    Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.368, Hachette UK
  • I actually love spinning for relaxation and to keep my body healthy, but besides that, I love exploring new restaurants. I love being outdoors. I love just spending time in the sun and hanging out with my friends.

    Source: www.askmen.com
  • Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.

    "For Rhoda" l. 40 (1938)
  • I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”
  • A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life.

  • When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.

    Play   People   Political  
  • Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.

  • There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

    Judging   Shadow   Done  
    Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.1058, Delphi Classics
  • I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.

    Asian   Looks   Mars  
  • Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

    Lying   Mean   Reality  
    Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2007). “unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation”, p.7, Random House
  • There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.

    Stars   Spinning   Tiny  
    Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.
  • My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

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