Wings Quotes - Page 36

• Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Stars, Liberty, Guides

  1853 Villette, ch.6.

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• How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly?

  Salman Rushdie

  Betrayal, Fall, Angel

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Pigs, Careers, Insane

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• Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Zero, Mistake, Men

  "A Man. A Legend. A What!?" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. September 23, 1991.

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• Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Law, Tasks, Done

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.19

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• We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries. The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems. Socialism and market economy are not incompatible. We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Country, Essence, Development

  "Pela China Dentro". Book by António Caeiro. Published by Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 2004.

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• Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

  Theocritus

  Gone, Sides, Youth

  Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.128, Delphi Classics

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• I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.

  Nick Hanauer

  Thinking, Ideas, Common Sense

  Source: gawker.com

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• People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

  Rick Warren

  People, Bird, Ask Me

  "Rick & Kay Warren Extended Interview". Interview with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. September 01, 2006.

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• I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

  Shirley Bassey

  Stage, Standing

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• Every child has his own beauty, her own talents. Ikarus Jackson can fly through the air; I want kids to find their own set of wings and soar with him.

  Christopher Myers

  Children, Kids, Air

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• the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. / thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. / wings brush against flowers. / fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.

  Hans Arp

  Spring, Flower, Fall

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• Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Wings Of Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.3

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• Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

  William Blake

  Angel, Terrible, Angel Wings

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.436, Univ of California Press

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• All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Hope, Prayer, Giving

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.558, Delphi Classics

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• I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  World, Body, Results

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.563, Delphi Classics

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• Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Angel, Men, Light

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155

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• Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Eagles, Imagination, Sage

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1853). “Proverbial Philosophy by Martin F. Tupper”, p.142

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• They say time flies, but you keep breaking it’s wings.

  Tablo

  Time Flies

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• Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

  John Milton

  God, Heart, Dark

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.9, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

  John Milton

  Men, Design, Flight

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.629-32.

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• Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

  John Milton

  Names, White, Black

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.97

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• Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Eye, Night, Ravens

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1897). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

  Amy Lowell

  Wall, Passion, Heart

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

  Amy Lowell

  Flower, Butterfly, Hours

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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