Wings Quotes - Page 24

• The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

  Leigh Bardugo

  Bird, Doe, Yoke

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.260, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• I want you to notice nature, how geese are in flight and they form a V in a leadership role…The lead goose, when he gets tired of flapping his wings, he drops to the back and the next goose comes up front. Without stopping, without fussing, without whining. He becomes that next leader, he or she, that’s what we have to do.

  Judy Bonds

  Tired, Leader, Stopping

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• Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.

  Stephanie Pace Marshall

  Butterfly, Awkward, Doe

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• There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of woman is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing.
  There is no hope for that family or country where there is no estimation of women, where they live in sadness. For this reason, they have to be raised first.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Sadness, Bird

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• Fluted sleeves or any sleeve that flares out before coming in again at the wrist are very feminine and a great way to distract from the dreaded 'bingo wings.'

  Twiggy

  Bingo, Way, Feminine

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• I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.

  Joely Fisher

  Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Travel, Insightful

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• Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Fate, Men, Generosity

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes.

  William Kristol

  Apology, Political, Agendas

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• Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies.

  Suzy Kassem

  Sky, Two, Bird

  "Truth Is Crying" by Suzy Kassem, 2008.

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• There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. . .When it works, baby, you've got wings.

  Keith Richards

  Baby, Realizing, Moments

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• Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now the enemy, as is the notion of settling. Get hungry- hyena hungry. Get fired up. Find your backbone, and your wings. Flap 'em. It's the only way you'll be able to fly.

  J. C. Hutchins

  Dream, War, Past

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• At evening casual flocks of pigeons make
  Ambiguous undulations as they sink
  Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Poetry, Darkness, Pigeons

  'Sunday Morning, I' (1923)

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• In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

  Tom Metzger

  Fighting, Europe, Cases

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• Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

  Marc Maron

  Tired, Europe, Trying

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• So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Weather, Waiting, Literature

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• So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

  Alan Licht

  Guitar, Play, America

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• You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

  Charles Simeon

  Faith, Prayer, Humble

  Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.654

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• Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Pioneers, Generations

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.75

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• I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right-wing, and loyal to the political framework and it’s corporate interests.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Fighting, Media

  "Duty of Expression". Interview with Sarah Burton, howardzinn.org. November 23, 2003.

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• The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

  Marianne Moore

  Mind, Sun, Enchanted

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.134, Penguin

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• Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them. The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right wing may become our enemy and their left wing may become our friend - but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, League

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.

  Rikki Ducornet

  Love, Children, Bird

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• ADAMSBERG WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT IN FOR EMOTION: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush past windows with their wings, never going in, because they know it will be difficult to get out. He had often found dead birds in the village houses back home, imprudent visitors who had ventured inside and never again found their way back to the open air. Adamsberg considered that when it came to love, humans were no wiser than birds.

  Fred Vargas

  Love, Strong, Home

  "An Uncertain Place". Book by Fred Vargas, 2008.

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