Ostriches Quotes

• Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Fool, Blind

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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• OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wings, Bird, Toes

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.176, University of Georgia Press

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• America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  America, Presidential, Sand

  Speech at Des Moines, 1 Feb. 1916, in New York Times 2 Feb. 1916, p. 1

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• A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Thinking, May

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.4, University of Michigan Press

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• Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

  Lenny Bruce

  Sand, Humans

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• I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

  Pierre Salinger

  Son, Emotional, Swag

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• Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

  Alex D. Linz

  Running, Fun, Home

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• The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.

  Pierre Daninos

  Animal, Bird, Political

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• We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

  Jim Butcher

  World, Sand, Whole

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• We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Hands, Issues, Choices

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• The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Wish, Important, Doe

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1039, Delphi Classics

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• Concentrate on the wonders and joys of this life, and accept the very best which is your true heritage. It is not being an ostrich, afraid of life and not facing it. It is seeing the reality of this glorious life which is yours, and in doing so, helping to bring it about. The more clearly you can see it, the more quickly will it come about.

  Eileen Caddy

  Life, Attitude, Reality

  Eileen Caddy (2007). “Opening Doors Within: 365 Daily Meditations from Findhorn”, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that......Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble.

  John Chaney

  Team, Reality, Escaping

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• I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

  Albert Einstein

  Order, Evil, Forever

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Rock star, flier than an ostrich...

  Juelz Santana

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

  "Song: Black Republicans (Da Drought 3)". April 13, 2007.

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• I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Sand, Feels, Mentality

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• Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ideas, Details

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• Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

  Georges Rouault

  People, Storm, Roaring

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• You know, a meme is now circulating that's called the Ostrich Brigade. And it's used to describe all those people who are burying their heads in the sand. I call it the three D strategy. It's denial, deflection, and a demonization of those of us who want to speak honestly about these issues of extremism.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Issues, People, Three

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

  Dan Brown

  Eye, Men, Green

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• Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

  H. G. Wells

  Government, Eagles, Europe

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• Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.

  Garrett P. Serviss

  Religious, Two, Political

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• We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Dog, Peace, Men

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.

  Totie Fields

  Clothes, Ruffles, Looks

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• Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

  Peter Kreeft

  Dog, Angel, Add

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