Wings Quotes - page 2

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: «It's gonna go wrong.» Or «She's going to hurt me.» Or, «I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore ...» Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down. (Ray Bradbury)
You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws. View quote
Jim Morrison
Home-that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. View quote
Victor Hugo
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it'' View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue. View quote
Bradley Whitford
I want more of this feeling - fire and wings. View quote
Jean Rhys
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. View quote
Denis Waitley
Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character. (O. J. Simpson)
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element. View quote
Augustus Hare
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain. View quote
Craig Raine
Some people insist that "mediocre” is better than "best.” They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. Pfah! View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch. View quote
William Hazlitt
Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again. View quote
Edwin Arlington Robinson
It was a still afternoon--the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath. View quote
George Eliot
the streams buck like rams in a tent whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed shadows of the shepherds. black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. wings brush against flowers. fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar. View quote
Jean Arp
If wishes were wings, pigs would fly. (Robert Jordan)
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party ... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. View quote
Gore Vidal
With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material [butterfly wings, around 1955] – the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable – with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
If I am an angel, paint me with black wings. View quote
Anne Rice
"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven. View quote
Bernard of Clairvaux