Top 254 Spiral Quotes & Sayings

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Let's stop this American downward spiral.

Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral.

Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.

All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

I was throwing a spiral football at 6.

There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral.

Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Spiral minds are harder to twist.

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.

You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.

President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have the death spiral, and I think particularly premiums in the individual market are going through the roof. Republicans want what's best for the country, but I think they're not fixing the death spiral of Obamacare. They're going to subsidize it with a lot of taxpayer money. So, characterizing something as mean or generous I think goes to people's motives, and I think it is sort of why we have such an angry country now. We think that people have ill motives.

The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.

My body structure ensures that if I do not watch what I eat, my weight tends to spiral crazily out of control.

By admitting a mistake, it is easier to get yourself out of a spiral.

Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective.

If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

People have gone down this spiral of cancel culture and the idea that everything is offensive.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.

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

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

It's really cool to read feedback. I'm trying not to engage too much, though, because I spiral out even if the reviews are, like... positive.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

On the other hand, if someone praised [Donald] Trump, he would respond with praise. This could result in creating a spiral in either a positive or negative direction. A negative spiral could potentially get out of hand, which would be alarming with regard to anyone with a hand hovering near the nuclear button.

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza.

Once you start to spiral a company down, you lose the momentum.

Most Americans know we are in a mess, and as they look at Donald Trump, they believe he is the one leader who can reverse the downward death spiral of this nation we love so dearly.

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

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

In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

We described the coronavirus crisis as more of a shock to the system as opposed to a full-blown recession which would spiral into a depression as the economy shut down.

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

When you're No. 8 in the world, then you start losing some matches, I think it was the first time in my career my confidence went down, and from there it was a downward spiral.