Air Quotes - Page 3

• Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

  Gina McCarthy

  Years, Law, Games

  "U.S. EPA: We need tougher ozone standards" by Gina McCarthy, money.cnn.com. November 26, 2014.

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• People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  People, Giving, Lucky

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Thinking, History

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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• And by another year,
  Such as God knows, with freer air,
  More fruits and fairer flowers
  Will bear,
  While I droop here.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Flower, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.129, Penguin

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• In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Successful, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2474, Delphi Classics

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• What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Water, Flying

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• The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Girl, Sweet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.310, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Rivers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.14

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• Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Book, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving - even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Running, Giving, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.23, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Dance India Dance is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Missing, India, Madness

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• Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Creativity, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.59

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• All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Рипол Классик

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• With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  House, Inspire, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.180, Bantam Classics

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• If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

  Mason Cooley

  Gone, Noses, Where You Are

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• Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

  Mason Cooley

  Rich, Behavior, Poor

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• There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

  Wallis Simpson

  Moving, Reflection, Furniture

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• The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Bible, Home, Son

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• The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Snakes, Desert, Treasure

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.16, Rutgers University Press

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• I suppose that Italy must always lie like some lovely sunken island at the bottom of all passionate dreams, from which at the flood it may arise; the air of it is charged with subtle essences of romance. One supposes Italy must be organized for the need of lovers.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Dream, Lying, Islands

  Mary Hunter Austin (1985). “A Woman of Genius”, p.239, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.

  William J. Brennan

  Order, Heritage, Dignity

  "Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence". Book by Brennan Center for Justice, 1997.

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• The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Freedom, Together, Race Relations

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

  George Etherege

  Heart, Helping, Influence

  1688 Letter to Mr Poley, 12 Jan.

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