Wings Quotes - Page 40

• High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggest dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven.

  Lucius Beebe

  Philosophy, Fall, Dark

  Lucius Morris Beebe (1966). “The Provocative Pen of Lucius Beebe, Esq”

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• The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Butterfly, Flying, Dying

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• I love America. America gave me wings.

  Dieter Dengler

  America

  "Fictional character: Dieter Dengler". "Rescue Dawn" Biography, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and strip it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Beautiful, Blessed, Eye

  "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.

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• Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Guy, Argument, Right Wing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Angel, Esteem

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• I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.

  Gretchen Wyler

  Running, Animal, Swim

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• All has been looted, betrayed, sold;
  black death's wing flashed ahead.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Black, Betrayed, Has Beens

  "Looted". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1921.

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• Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Sweet, Flower, Heart

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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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• Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Telling The Truth, Truth Is, Exposing

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• Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Butterfly, Garden, Grey Matter

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• Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

  Cindy Sheehan

  Mother, Lying, Grief

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

  Antonio Porchia

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Some people just wait for someone to take them under their wings but they should just find someones wings to grab onto.

  Andrea Jung

  People, Waiting, Should

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• A word does not say anything
  And at the same time it hides everything
  
  Just as the wind that hides the water
  Like the flowers that mud hides.
  
  A glance does not say anything
  And at the same time it says everything
  Like rain on your face Or an old treasure map
  
  A truth does not say anything
  And at the same time it hides everything
  Like a bonfire that does not go out
  Like a stone that is born dust.
  
  If one day you need me, I will be nothing
  And at the same time I will be everything
  
  Because in your eyes are my wings
  And the shore where I drown.

  Carlos Varela

  Life, Rain, Flower

  "Una Palabra [A Word]". Song by Carlos Varela, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and then I went into combat at 19. And I think, as I look back on it, that whole experience probably shaped my life more than any incident, or any event.

  George H. W. Bush

  Life, Thinking, Years

  "George H. W. Bush on Courage". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

  William Davenant

  Stars, Eye, Light

  William Davenant, “Morning Song”

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• My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspiration, Bumblebees, Body

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• Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Dark, Moon

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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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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• . . . It wasn't until the jet engine came into being and that engine was coupled with special airplane designs - such as the swept wing - that airplanes finally achieved a high enough work capability, efficiency and comfort level to allow air transportation to really take off.

  Joe Sutter

  Airplane, Jet Engines, Design

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• Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Love, Truth, Eye

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• The Silk Worm
  
  I stood before a silk worm one day.
  And that night my heart said to me,
  
  "I can do things like that, I can spin skies,
  I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people;
  I can be soft against a crying face,
  I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet
  throughout the earth, my sacs filled with the sacred."
  
  And I replied to my heart,
  "Dear, can you really do all those things?"
  
  And it just nodded "Yes" in silence.
  
  So we began and will never cease.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Night

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• He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

  William Blake

  Love, Sports, Laughter

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.894, Delphi Classics

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