Wings Quotes - Page 16

• We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

  Howard Dean

  Years, Balance, President

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• Hope gives the heart wings; the
  soul, an anchor.

  Janet Todd

  Heart, Anchors, Giving

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• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Beautiful, Men, Light

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• Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Beautiful, Girl

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• Cause we all have wings
  But some of us don't know why

  Michael Hutchence

  Causes, Knows

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• Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

  Jim Horning

  Learning, Views, Discipline

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• We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

  James P. Hoffa

  Jobs, War, Tired

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• I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

  Wally Schirra

  Beautiful, Kids, Shoes

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• The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

  Robert Bly

  Journey, Other Worlds, Long

  Robert Bly (1986). “Selected poems”, Harper Perennial

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• I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Summer, Writing, Thinking

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• And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

  Nancy Mitford

  People, Mind, Causes

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.111, Vintage

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• I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

  Layne Staley

  Has Beens, Denied

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• Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

  Will Smith

  Distance, Night, Color

  Song: Afro Angel, Album: Willennium

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• Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Thinking, Gulags

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• Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, America, Squares

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• Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Party, Believe, Care

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• No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Bird, Opening

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• To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

  Mary Stewart

  Sleep, Air, Years

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.

  Simon Bolivar

  Fall, People, Liberty

  Simón Bolívar, José Luis Salcedo-Bastardo (1983). “The hope of the universe”, United Nations Educational

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• A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

  Kate Chopin

  Air, Broken, Water

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.155, Kate Chopin

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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, Butterfly

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• Fear can give you urgent wings.

  Margaret Mahy

  Fear, Giving, Urgent

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• I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

  Roger Martin

  Light, Ideas, Phrases

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• Sometimes hate is not enough to turn this all to ashes, together as one and against all others, break all of their wings to make sure it crashes.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Together, Ashes

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• Most birds were created to fly.  Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around. Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly.  Not something I want for you. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.  And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.

  William P. Young

  Pain, Hands, Long

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2008.

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