Wings Quotes - Page 10

• If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.

  Dick Shawn

  Cat, Angel, Bird

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• If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

  Michael Elmore-Meegan

  Wall, Recovery, Anorexia

  "All Will be Well". Book by Michael Meegan, 2004.

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• Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.

  Frances Goodrich

  Mean, Angel, Appreciate

  "Fictional character: Clarence". "It's a Wonderful Life", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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• Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Money, Angel, Giving

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• When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

  Arthur M. Wellington

  Lying, Science, Problem

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• The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fall, Philosophical, Owl

  Philosophy of Right (1821)

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• In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space, and engulf the star-clouds in a fire storm of children, trees, and butterfly wings; or Life will fail, fizzle, and gutter out, leaving the universe shrouded forever in impenetrable blankness, devoid of hope.

  Marshall Savage

  Stars, Children, Philosophical

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• I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became stronger until it found the freedom of flight and was able to soar to great heights and fly great distance without any effort. I heard the words: Faith comes with practice. Live by faith until it becomes rocklike unshakable, and find the true freedom of the spirit.

  Eileen Caddy

  Spiritual, Distance, Practice

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• Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

  Omar Khayyam

  Spiritual, Spring, Winter

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1993). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Let us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,-determine to make a day of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Children, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.153

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• In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Two, Bird

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• The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear and hope are its two wings. When the head and two wings are sound, the bird flies gracefully; if the head is severed, the bird dies; if the bird loses one of its wings, it then becomes a target for every hunter or predator.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

  O. J. Simpson

  Money, Character, Endure

  "O. J. Simpson: 10 years later". Interview with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. June 18, 2004.

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• The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Facts, Inspired, Republican

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• If you want to fly, you have to flap your own wings!

  Claire Williams

  Butterfly, Want, Ifs

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• One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.

  Niels Bohr

  Butterfly, Science, Color

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• Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.

  Kjell Bloch Sandved

  Butterfly, Messages, Written

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• We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.

  Andrea Corr

  Queens, Things In Life, Ants

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• An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Artist, Self

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.466, Vintage

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• Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.

  Jeffrey Osborne

  Music, Flying High, Two

  Song: On The Wings Of Love

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• Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, Heads Up, Picks

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• It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly carved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on the hackles of a fishing fly? Or the arrangements and textures on a butterfly's wing? Not if you are a McDonalds's man.

  Ray Kroc

  Butterfly, Men, Mcdonalds

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• On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

  Claude Debussy

  Teaching, Butterfly, Assessment

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• We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

  Phil Knight

  Sports, Nike, Knights

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• If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

  Ken Robinson

  Fitness, Workout, Jobs

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