Wings Quotes - Page 33

• The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Names, People

  "Newt Gingrich: GOP's Bare-Knuckles Battler". "Tampa Bay Times" (St. Petersburg) Newspaper, July 27, 1989.

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• I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.... I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering... I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Engineering, Obamacare

  "One-on-one with Newt Gingrich". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position within the world and an inexorable demographic decline. The operation in Gaza
  is not Netanyahu’s strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu’s strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision with which I identify, which once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it.

  Jonathan Chait

  Two, Political, Vision

  "Israel Is Making It Hard To Be Pro-Israel". Article by Jonathan Chait, nymag.com. July 29, 2014.

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• I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.

  Danilo Kis

  Struggle, Butterfly, Sleep

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• Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get up,/ Write it down, but it was late,/ and I was exhausted from working/ all day in the garden, moving rocks./ Now, I remember only the flavor--/ not like food, sweet or sharp./ More like a fine powder, like dust./ And I wasn't elated or frightened,/ but simply rapt, aware./ That's how it is sometimes--/ God comes to your window,/ all bright light and black wings,/ and you're just too tired to open it.

  Dorianne Laux

  Sweet, Moving, Writing

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need
  the two wings of emptiness and compassion.
  From now on, let us use these two wings
  to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Compassion, Sky, Two

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• When I was first drafted, I was just happy that any team wanted to take me, but it was the Red Wings, and that made it better.

  Henrik Zetterberg

  Team, Red, Firsts

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• For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

  Amy Davidson

  Government, Embarrassment, Crisis

  "Obama’s Speech: Guns and Government" by Amy Davidson Sorkin, www.newyorker.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.

  Michael Jordan

  Feet, Flying, Littles

  Michael Jordan, David J. Stern, National Basketball Association (2000). “The Official NBA Encyclopedia”, Doubleday Books

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• I've been having problems with the right wing lately.

  John F. Kerry

  Problem, Right Wing

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• Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Sweet, Night, Feet

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• I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

  Pat Metheny

  Thinking, Views, Jazz

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• I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

  Don King

  Men, Boxing, Imagination

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• Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

  Larry Holmes

  Light, Boxing, Weight

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• Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Credit, Paper

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.234

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• Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.

  John Dryden

  Winter, Land, Fowl

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...”, p.400

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• Spread your wings and let me come inside.

  Rod Stewart

  Let Me, Spread

  Song: Tonight's The Night, Album: A Night on the Town

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• Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.'

  Jimmy Page

  Angel, Journey, Broken

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• The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wall, Real, Thinking

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.

  Ted Lindsay

  Heart, Chicago, Red

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• I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Player, Special

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• I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.

  Jerry Falwell

  Kings, Rights, Leader

  "Ministers and Marches". Jerry Falwell's sermon in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1965.

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• On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

  Lynn Johnston

  Dream, Morning, Lying

  Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.6, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs,
  And mounts exulting on triumphant wings;
  Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,
  Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Blood, Joy

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.33

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• Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so

  Gertrude Atherton

  Mistake, People, Imagination

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “The Bell in the Fog: And Other Stories”, p.21, The Floating Press

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