Wings Quotes - Page 38

• Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their life. Rather than pursue every thing they possibly can to prepare themselves to enable their idea or special talent, they tend to wing it and make excuses.

  Mark Cuban

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  "Interview: Mark Cuban, Businessman". Interview with Scott McKenzie, slushpile.net. March 9, 2006.

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• Kuwait has been a safeguard for who remained inside her, unaffected from the dangers that surround them, loyal to this land, and loving her soil, and believing the justice of her cause.. Also, Kuwait was the hope for the ones outside, where they continued to strive by gathering all the forces for her right, without these two wings, the state would have been another state.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Believe, Kuwait, Two

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• The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if you cannot begin to get a glimpse of their meaning. Your wings are being developed.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mother, Fall, Light

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”

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• And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The more bedraggled the fly gets the better the trout like it. I think there is a reason for this. I think the bedraggled half worn out wet fly more closely imitates a nymph than a new one does. Most commercial flies are tied too bushy and full. A little trimming of wings and thinning out of hackles will often work wonders.

  Ray Bergman

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

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• For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  War, Faults, Reform

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• Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Play, Matter

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• There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

  Laurel Clark

  Pumps, Life Is, Starting

  "Astronaut Clark: 'Life is a magical thing'", www.cnn.com. February 4, 2003.

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• Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

  Anthony Holden

  Literature, Pressure, Done

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• I don't doubt myself ever, but people that don't know me do. I've been playing for 15 years, and have the most playoffs wins in Wings history for a reason, and not because I'm a bad goalie.

  Chris Osgood

  Hockey, Winning, Years

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• Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell stalks abroad; - the lash resounds on the slave's naked sides; and the sick wretch, who can no longer earn the sour bread of unremitting labour, steals to a ditch to bid the world a long good night.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Good Night, Prayer, Men

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• Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

  Erica Jong

  Law, Abortion, Birth Control

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

  Adam Pally

  Order, Common, Comedy

  "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

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• The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.

  Adam Sandler

  Children, Sleep, Kids

  "DUB Q&A: Adam Sandler". Press conference, www.dubmagazine.com. June 9, 2010.

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• If I was a supervillain, I'd create this universal, cosmic rule where every time an old, shitty, right-wing white man says something unsavory about a young woman, he would just get the clap immediately.

  Jack Antonoff

  Men, White Man, Young

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Democracy, West

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• Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.

  Bob Ross

  Angel, Use, Pressure

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• Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

  Dwight Garner

  Book, Class, People

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• In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

  Robert Stack

  Believe, Air, Cameras

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• Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

  Robert Browning

  Men, Soul, Reincarnation

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.40

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• Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.

  Billy Corgan

  Angel

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• To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Clouds, Eagles, Heaven

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 12: Sermons 668 to 727”, p.486, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.

  J. C. Ryle

  Church, Foundation, Decay

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• Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking."More or less," Arriane said

  Lauren Kate

  Hell, Holy, Said

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.708, Delacorte Press

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• The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is 'legally' restricted by a nearly impassable series of bureaucratic obstacles designed to keep them out while still maintaining the 'democratic' illusion, i.e. the phony two-party system, which is in reality a single entity.

  Justin Raimondo

  War, Party, Reality

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• The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Fall, Angel, Heart

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