Air Quotes - Page 6

• There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.

  Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

  Book, Men, Interesting

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• The gross elements are earth, water, air and fire, with the fifth being space. Each particle of the body is made up of these five elements, which are manifested in different colors. In their true quality, space is blue light, water is white, earth is yellow, fire is red, and air is green.

  Tulku Thondup

  Light, Blue, Color

  Tulku Thondup (2001). “Boundless Healing: Medittion Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?

  Jean Maalouf

  Dream, Kindness, Animal

  Jean Maalouf (2003). “The Healing Power of Kindness”, p.44, Twenty-Third Publications

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• He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

  Lech Walesa

  Solidarity, Crushed

  1983 Nobel peace prize lecture, read on his behalf,11 Dec.

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• The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an air about you but it is quickly deflated, you cannot deflate presence. Presence walks into a room and surrounds and fills anything that's in that room without trying to demand it, it takes over. It can come from a smile. Like I said, love makes you beautiful. What is beautiful radiates.

  Terrence Howard

  Beautiful, Kids, Important

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• Alas, so all things now do hold their peace:
  Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing:
  The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease;
  The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Song, Peace, Stars

  Henry Howard, “Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace”

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• How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air of thedrawing-room? How can the grasp of the mind be vigorous, without action? Daughters of inherited wealth, or accumulated labor! the wide door of philanthropy is open peculiarly to you! Your life-work lies beyond your threshold: your wealth has placed you above the sorrowful struggle for daily bread which takes up the whole time of so many of your brothers and sisters. You are the almoners of God. A double accountability is yours.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Brother, Lying

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• Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

  Francois Arago

  Men, Eagles, Effort

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• It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.

  John Cassian

  Miracle, Patient, Demon

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• With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Family, Running, Men

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• Up and down! Up and down!
  From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;
  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam
  The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--
  A home, if such a place may be,
  For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,
  On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,
  And only seeketh her rocky lair
  To warm her young and to teach them spring
  At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!

  Bryan Procter

  Spring, Home, Ice

  Barry Cornwall, “The Stormy Petrel”

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• Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
  Communicated monthly, sit and stare
  At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
  Where a young man lands hatless from the air.

  John Betjeman

  Running, Men, Land

  'Death of King George V' (1937)

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• That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Vegetables, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Philosophical. Essays and correspondence”, p.322

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• A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Real, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Needs, Breathe

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• Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

  Frederick Buechner

  Dark, People, Suffering

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.372, Zondervan

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• Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Feelings

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• Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Giving, Mountain

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• The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.

  Robert Benchley

  Summer, Night, Trying

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.43, Glendower Media

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• We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

  Tony Abbott

  Freedom, Sea, Navigation

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• The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.

  Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

  Sky, Breathing, Water

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• Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

  Joseph Stalin

  Army, Needs, Red

  "Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941 - 1945" by Von Hardesty, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, (p. 170), 1982.

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• What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Water, Flying

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• And by another year,
  Such as God knows, with freer air,
  More fruits and fairer flowers
  Will bear,
  While I droop here.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Flower, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.129, Penguin

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• Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Thinking, History

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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