Wings Quotes - Page 17

• Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

  Paul Krugman

  Media, United States, Machines

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• A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

  Wilhelm Raabe

  Creativity, Men, Ideas

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• I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

  Mark Pryor

  Fighting, Teeth, Nails

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• When April winds
  Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush
  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,
  Opened in airs of June her multitude
  Of golden chalices to humming-birds
  And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.

  William C. Bryant

  Flower, June, Air

  "The Fountain". Poem by William C. Bryant, 1839.

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• May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather.

  Edward Ramsay

  Friendship, Rust, May

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• Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

  William Blake

  Summer, Art, Animal

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.72, Routledge

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• The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.

  Tyler Cowen

  Class, Might, Sides

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• Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented
  when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce
  and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?

  Calvin Trillin

  Blue, Half, Buffalo

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.

  Johannes Gutenberg

  Religious, Numbers, Giving

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• God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word can not reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books, which confine instead of spread the public treasure. Let us break the seal which seals up holy things and give wings to Truth in order that she may win every soul that comes into the world by her word no longer written at great expense by hands easily palsied, but multiplied like the wind by an untiring machine.

  Johannes Gutenberg

  Religious, Book, Winning

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• Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.

  Karl Pilkington

  Pigeons, Walks

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• I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Kids, Thinking

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• Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!

  Andy Biersack

  Bvb, Broken, Bird

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• Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Weight, Burden

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• Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

  Steve Aylett

  Butterfly, World, Sides

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• Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It's not the world that's the stage - it's social media, where you're trying to put on a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online.

  Lauren Beukes

  Media, Trying, World

  "Broken Monsters". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2014.

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• Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Believe, Icons, Heaven

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• Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

  Jo Grimond

  Country, Party, Long

  Said in November 1953. "The Liberal Dilemma". Book by Alan Watkins, p. 91, 1966.

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• Red Bull doesn't give you wings, it just makes ya sick.

  Niall Horan

  Giving, Sick, Bulls

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• The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.

  Brian Francis

  Strong, War, Blood

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• I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.

  Jean Rhys

  Fire, Feelings, Want

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• Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Bird, Mountain, World

  Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.301, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies.

  Rick Yancey

  Kids, Games, Boredom

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.133, Penguin

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• The consciousness and life force do what they want...
  one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly
  and the next minute they send a whole town crushing with tremendous force...
  who can work it out?

  Mooji

  Crush, Butterfly, Energy

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• The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Ravens, Departed, Spread

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2007). “The Battle of Evernight: Bitterbynde 3”, p.363, Tor Australia

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