These unwind quotes will inspire you. Unwind to cause to uncoil or to free from or as if from a binding or wrapping.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging unwind quotes, unwind sayings, and unwind proverbs.
Best Unwind Quotes
- “Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.” ~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
- “Unwinds didn’t go out with a bang-they didn’t even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “”You…you lost your faith?”
“No…just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing.”
Lev begins to feel himself choking up with an unexpected flood of feeling, all the emotions that had been building up throughout their talk throughout the weeks-arriving all at once like a sonic boom.
“I never knew there was a choice”.” ~ Neal Shusterman -
“Fight, flight, and screw up royalty.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “Small victories are better than none.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “The Bill Engvall Show’ is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It’s a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.” ~ Nancy Travis
- “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
- “President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?” ~ David Letterman
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“We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain’t nothing that lasts forever, forever.” ~ Bryan Adams
- “Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind.” ~ Will Smith
- “I’ve learned that I can’t have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.” ~ Kim Cattrall
- “…One thing you learn when you’ve lived as long as I have-people aren’t all good, and people aren’t all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I’m pleased to be in the light.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “Everyone needs some time to unwind. There are even coloring book clubs popping up in every state now, so it’s not such an isolating experience. People are getting together specifically to color. It’s amazing.” ~ Alan Robert
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“I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.” ~ Nelson DeMille
- “The moment you’re loved, that’s when you got your soul.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “Fate will unwind as it must!” ~ Burton Raffel
- “They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.” ~ Tim O’Brien
- “We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I’m pleased to be in the light.” ~ Neal Shusterman
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“I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it’s a rare special thing.” ~ Jay Baruchel
- “You’ve always lived here, right?” Sarah asked. “Except for the years I went to college.” “Didn’t you ever want to move away? To experience something new?” “Like bistros?” She nudged him playfully with her elbow. “No, not just that. Cities have a vibrancy, a sense of excitement that you can’t find in a small town.” “I don’t doubt it. But to be honest, I’ve never been interested in things like that. I don’t need those things to make me happy. A nice quiet place to unwind at the end of the day, beautiful views, a few good friends. What else is there?” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “Being an entrepreneur, everyone needs to hear a personal anecdote from you once in a while or see you go out of your way to make someone’s day. Maybe it’s time for a party at your house to unwind, or an afternoon off with the team to attend the ball game.” ~ Martin Zwilling
- “Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never-ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.” ~ Michel Legrand -
“I like to unwind by doing nothing. If I do get a day, I just like to vegetate and laze around.” ~ Sonakshi Sinha
- “You see, a conflict always begins with an issue – a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn’t matter anymore, because now it’s about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “But this isn’t a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.” ~ Eric Liu
- “[…] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it’s her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she’s always so busy in the medical jet—and you don’t just go to somebody and say, “I’m a better person because you’re in my head.” ~ Neal Shusterman
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“How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.” ~ Theodore Roethke
- “We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.” ~ Russell Brand , Unwind quotes about life
- “When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.” ~ Jonathan Davis
- “So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast an imaginary muffin. That was always the best way to unwind when things got to be too much for it.” ~ Thomas M. Disch
- “Perfect definition of atheist dogma. Your mind has been subjected to subtle mental conditioning year after year. Now the atheist lie has become the truth to you. A lie that can be blown away with the real truth. It just takes time to unwind the atheist mental conditioning. The truth is out there. Outside of atheist dogma lies the truth!” ~ Vladimir Lenin
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“I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.” ~ Fred Savage
- “Fine,” Connor tells him. “Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen.” I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.” ~ Pablo Neruda
- “After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.” ~ Linda Jones
- “The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?” ~ David Letterman
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“I don’t ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I’m not working I’m not at peace.” ~ Katerina Graham
- “You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.” ~ Larry Wall
- “We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.” ~ Patti Smith
- “It’s when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting – peering under the table and into the bath to see who’s stayed and what shape they’re in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential – nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.” ~ Alice Thomas Ellis
- “The first day of the brand new calendar year is an empowered time to psychologically unwind to mentally find own life charged emotionally with a refined energy & enthusiasm to create a beautiful growth paradigm within the physically defined laws of nature and the rules of the game called life.” ~ Anuj , Nature unwind quotes
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“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “Many feel compelled to be connected around the clock because we are afraid we’ll miss something important. There is a growing movement to step out and create ‘quiet zones’ to disconnect from technology and unwind, giving ourselves time to stop and be still. Color choices follow the same minimalistic, ‘en plein air’ theme, taking a cue from nature rather than being reinvented or mechanically manipulated. Soft, cool hues blend with subtle warm tones to create a soothing escape from the everyday hustle and bustle.” ~ Leatrice Eiseman
- “I spend half my time in Montana, the other half in New York City. In unique ways, both places help me unwind, and both are the most satisfying places to live I can imagine.” ~ Jeff Shaara
- “Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.” ~ Judah Friedlander , Relax and unwind quotes
- “As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make – ‘derive’ – and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?” ~ Richard Dooling
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“I don’t get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can’t unwind.” ~ Delia Smith
- “I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I’m researching and writing.” ~ Ashwin Sanghi
- “She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost – which was everybody.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “I like watching DVDs, flying my plane, walking and going to my place in Scotland. I like yoga. It takes me a while to unwind, the subconscious parts of my mind take a while to catch up with the rest of me.” ~ Martin Shaw
- “Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.” ~ Deborah Harkness
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“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.” ~ Emile M. Cioran
- “Having an answer is a comfort. It’s when you start asking questions and those questions pull threads in the larger fabric, you’re forced to wonder what you’re left with. And for people of any age, it’s scary to think the fabric of the universe – or the universe as you’ve always believed it existed – can just unwind, you know?” ~ Robin Epstein
- “I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you’re around people all day long. So it’s actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind.” ~ Rooney Mara
- “I also always carry my flute. It’s very important for me to try to relax when I’m traveling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.” ~ Andrea Bocelli
- “When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.” ~ Seth Klarman
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“If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don’t know. It would have hit every institution in the world.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “The interesting thing about it to me is the mindset. With all these “helpers” running around, they talk about doing deals. We talk about welcoming partners. The guy doing deals, he wants to do a deal and then unwind it in the near future. It’s totally opposite for us. We like to build lasting relationships. I think our system will work better in the long term than flipping deals. I think there are so many of them [helpers] that they’ll get in ea h other’s way. I don’t think they’ll make enough money to meet their expectations, by flipping, flipping, flipping.” ~ Charlie Munger
- “I like to sneak a game or two of ‘Madden’ somewhere in between studying and sleeping; it helps me unwind and get my mind off football for a little bit.” ~ Will Poole
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“Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can’t they meet anywhere else?” ~ Ian MacKaye
- “I became very aware of what I was used to relying on, almost tricks. It’s funny because I could feel myself creating a formula and sticking with it and I just told myself, ‘That’s not me, that’s not really how I am, god forbid I have developed a formula – it’s music; songwriting.’ It’s heretic, honestly, in the church of music, so I had to unwind a few tricks in order to get past it.” ~ Zach Condon
- “One reason [of Andy Griffith Show popularity] is because of the formula. It had comedy, but it also had tender moments. The other reason is because it was therapeutic. It helped people relax and unwind.” ~ Betty Lynn