Butterfly Quotes - Page 15

• I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies.

  Stacey Dash

  Sexy, Flip, Stomach

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• In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

  Eban Goodstein

  Rain, Home, Clouds

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• When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they walked. The insects ticked softly, their strength in reserve; butterflies chopped the air, going to the east, and the birds flew carelessly and sang by fits and starts, not the way they did in the evening in sustained and drowsy songs.

  Eudora Welty

  Music, Song, Sweet

  Eudora Welty (1974). “The Wide Net and Other Stories”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Differences, Novices, Scared

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• It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

  Gunter Grass

  Watches, Dangerous, Staggering

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• World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

  Nelly Sachs

  Children, Taken, Fire

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• It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Keys, Overcoming Fear, Stomach

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• I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.

  Ally Condie

  Strong, Eye, Break Through

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• On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.

  Heather O'Neill

  Writing, Men, Order

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• Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.

  James Gleick

  New York, Air, Weather

  Chaos prologue (1987)

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• I still get butterflies when England are playing.

  Alan Shearer

  England, Stills, I Get Butterflies

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• Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
  I’m in love with the one that got away.

  Laura Miller

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• It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

  Laura Miller

  Flying, Feelings, Mind

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• My friends back home call me a warrior. In fact I'm a butterfly-faced warrior.

  DeeDee Trotter

  Home, Warrior, Facts

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• The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'.

  Brigid Brophy

  Fun, May, Deer

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• It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

  George Vaillant

  Liars, Littles, Common

  George E. Vaillant (1977). “Adaptation to Life”, p.197, Harvard University Press

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• Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Life Changing, Struggle, Successful

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• The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Wings, Flying, Dying

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• Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

  Gerald Durrell

  Humble, Eye, Expression

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• True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of being admired, like a butterfly.

  Ellen G. White

  Fashion, Simplicity, True Beauty

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• I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could do was live by my beliefs. That's probably the most profound thing that anybody can do.

  Daryl Hannah

  Strong, Profound, Gestures

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• I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That's the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.

  John Eliot

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

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• Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Garden, Grey Matter, Cells

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• The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

  Anthony de Mello

  Selfish, Eggs, Eagles

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.206, Image

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• I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Children, Justice, Guilt

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