Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.
Quotes about merry-go-round (10 Quotes)
It was that merry-go-round. I would have to hide from the public when I gained weight because I just didn't want to be photographed like that.
It's nasty. You can't keep your car clean. It's like a merry-go-round with all the bumps, and you slide around that curve every time.
If every time two or three people disagreed we changed the secretary of defense of the United States, it would be like a merry-go-round.
It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a Ticket for the peep show.
When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.
My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.
Of those four runs, I think three were walks. Basically, we didn't have good control in the late innings and that's why we had the merry-go-round on the mound.
Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.