Wings Quotes by Langston Hughes, Mona Charen, Thor Heyerdahl, William Blake, William J. Clinton, Henry David Thoreau and many others.
I was fortunate to be around a couple of coaches who took me under their wing and taught me how to train, how to work and how to prepare myself for a game. They gave me so much, and I saw the passion they had for the game and for teaching it. What I learned from them led me to want to become a teacher and coach.
I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.
Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.
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.
Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
I’m not politically motivated. I used to be – passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.
Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.
Why can’t a democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning ‘the Catcher in the Rye’ and ‘Harry Potter‘?
‘Filly Brown’ gave me the wings to fly, but red carpets are still very uncomfortable.
I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.
GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what’s happened to me.
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past –
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove –
The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove –
The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.
Robert Gass and ‘On Wings of Song’ bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.
I don’t think that the forms of feminism that are prevailing on campus are left wing. It’s a conservative form of feminism in gender politics and there [isn’t] anything particularly progressive about it. That’s what is baffling. You’ve got conservatives acting like liberals touting free speech and due process.
The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political stand, so they have to destroy what they call Obamacare. This is now not all the Republicans, it’s a wing of the Republican Party, which is called conservative but in fact is just deeply reactionary.
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
She soars on her own wings.
Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.
I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.
People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.
Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men’s souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
[Pigeons are] rats with wings.
Yours will be the wings of an eagle’s flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy – in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.
Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.
The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.
Our government is a bird with two right wings… They’re devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.
Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings
The best thing about Las Vegas is that no one pretends to be responsible for your behavior like they do in the rest of the country. There’s no meddling self-righteous liberals or right-wing Christian demagogues telling you that you can’t do something fun with your own time and money. If you can afford it, it’s yours.
The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.
The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.
All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.
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.
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.
No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.
Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I’m so stupid. Forget I just said that. “He needs a Band-Aid,” I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding,love — Forget I said that too. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.
Republicans didn’t lie to the American people about whether there were classified e-mails on that server and Republicans didn’t tell families of Americans killed in Benghazi that a video was to blame for their murders. There isn’t a vast right-wing conspiracy, Madam Secretary. Just like there wasn’t one back in 1998.
Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can fly.
. . . 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.
It’s important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. ‘The West Wing’ isn’t meant to be good for you.
The right-wing of the Republican party isn’t so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
I’ve always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I’m coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it’s representing the Left.
Music gives a soul to the universe.
If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!
Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it’s like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It’s like a dream.
I don’t think about what I do. I do it. That’s Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state,
Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
Thought
Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying
Thought
No, I do not identify with the right wing.
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, ‘End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.
Abhinav is like the winds beneath my wings.
I’ve always been fascinated by everything with wings.
In days of yore, the poet’s pen From wing of bird was plunder‘d, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove’s own eagle sunder’d. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet’s numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.
Use thy duties, as Noah‘s dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest.
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor‘s shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
When are the world’s political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, … trash can, clown face, … dollar bill with bat wings on it?
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
Now there is something about [Tuukka] you probably don’t know and that is he loves chicken wings more than any person I’ve ever met in my life. If he could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner he would.
To the heavens on the wings of a pig.
The days of using my name as a pejorative are now over. The right wing turned me into an accidental spokesperson for the liberal, majority agenda.
It’s just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He’s the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called ‘chads,’ a notion we’ve never entirely grasped.
But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
I was so aware of the stage clothes versus the everyday-life clothes, and the extremeness of the stage clothes that my parents had designed. Even coming across my dad‘s old Beatles suits from Savile Row and the history attached to them – the masculinity and simplicity compared to the ’70s glitz and glamour of Wings.
The entire European Union is a left-wing dream
The one without dreams is the one without wings.
There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of woman is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing.
There is no hope for that family or country where there is no estimation of women, where they live in sadness. For this reason, they have to be raised first.
There is no hope for that family or country where there is no estimation of women, where they live in sadness. For this reason, they have to be raised first.
That’s the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings.
The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.
At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party.
I ain’t scared to do another dating show, but I ain’t really trying to… I’ve done enough dating on television. I’m ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
In these home affairs things I think occasionally it’s the duty of politicians on both sides to turn round to the tabloids and right-wing newspapers and say ‘you have your facts wrong and you’re whipping up facts which are inaccurate
From an angel’s wings to a fallen star, God makes everything but unbreakable hearts.
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.
She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl‘s wings and talons and became other than conscious.
Since I have spread my wings to purpose high,
The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,
The more I give the winds my pinions free,
Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
The more beneath my feet the clouds I see,
The more I give the winds my pinions free,
Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
Why does she have wings?’ So she can fly.
The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they already live in heaven.
Heaven’s sakes, there’s only one party which I call the Property Party. It’s got two wings. One is called the “Republican” and one is called “Democratic.” It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat’s elected or a Republican’s elected. The ownership remains the same.
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
That’s how it is sometimes–God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you’re just too tired to open it.
Who needs enemies when you’ve got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?
Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you’re over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now the enemy, as is the notion of settling. Get hungry- hyena hungry. Get fired up. Find your backbone, and your wings. Flap ’em. It’s the only way you’ll be able to fly.
Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
Imagination should give wings to our thoughts but we always need decisive experimental proof, and when the moment comes to draw conclusions and to interpret the gathered observations, imagination must be checked and documented by the factual results of the experiment.
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.
If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn’t bump his behind every time he hopped.
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it’s only because it doesn’t know that the fire can consume it.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
The GAA is the sporting wing of the IRA.
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.
O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart‘s wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.
I don’t feel I was ever a ‘famous‘ child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace – not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.
On things like censorship, I think everything should be allowed on television. You know, I mean anything. I don’t know who believes that anymore. Every left wing party says there should be some degree of censorship, that some things are bad taste. But it’s unjustifiable for anyone to decide what is bad taste.
Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?
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.
I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom… true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.
Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be heard; Earth’s silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
The Bird of Hermes is my name, Eating my Wings to make me tame.
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.
Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.
Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.
There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.
All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.
As a child, I was competitive in whatever it was – first one to eat your wings, first one to run to the door. In everything we were competitive. I always wanted to have the edge.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
People aren’t evil and people aren’t good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?
A bird is safe in its nest – but that is not what its wings are made for.
The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.
People ask me, “Are you right wing or are you left wing?” and I always say, “I’m for the whole bird.” A one-winged bird didn’t ever get off the ground.
I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you’d find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word marriage. Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.
Left wing, chicken wing, it don’t make no difference to me.
The left are not bipartisan. Somebody give me an example of left-wing bipartisanship. They don’t even define it the way we do. Bipartisanship, as they define it, as in we cave on our core beliefs and agree with them. That is bipartisanship. There is no compromise.
I made dance records and the gay community gravitated toward them. They gave me a place to really shine, a place to develop, and a place to spread my wings – I’ll forever be grateful for that.
He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.
I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, вЂdon’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as вЂforget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.
We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them.
When the entertainers of the right aren’t declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they’re pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call “the Chicago way.”
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die… Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
Harriet Miers isn’t qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing , let alone to be a real one.
They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George – those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.
If you haven‘t got eyes, you shouldn’t have wings
Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?
As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I’m waiting in the wings to go on, it’s agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I’m on stage it’ll be fine; I’ll be in my happy little bubble.
The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions.
Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.
I saw the ‘Wizard of Oz’ recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That’s how scary that movie was for me.
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.
North Carolina right now is going apeshit in a way no state ever has. Take every crazy, angry idea your drunk, right-wing uncle mumbles at Thanksgiving, turn it into a law, and that’s North Carolina today.
My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.
He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.
Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.
Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Of all the relationships in my life, the one with my brother is most cherished. He was my first friend, partner in crime, shoulder to cry on and always the wind beneath my wings.
We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.
For the last fifty years we’ve been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me…I don’t understand what there is in the American character…that almost automatically, even when we have a liberal President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant towards them.
You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.
Hope gives the heart wings; the
soul, an anchor.
soul, an anchor.
And another day is tucked under my wing.
Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
We have to earn our Wings every day.
Don’t you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we’re left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here.
Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts!
…they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.
Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn’t catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that the establishment, moderate wing of the party has sidelined itself. They’re not coalescing around one candidate as they have in the past.
When you get to the end of a TV series, you feel totally out of sorts as an actor. You feel unfit; your voice box has collapsed on you because you’ve spent all day muttering into a microphone that’s two inches from your head, and you feel desperate to spread your wings and do a bit of real thesping.
Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism – a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.
I always feel blessed because so many people have taken me under their wings, nurtured me, and made me a part of their vision.
I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.
I don’t really have a process. I’m very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set.
Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.
The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.
[The ignorant hath an eagle’s wings and an owl’s eyes.]
[The ignorant hath an eagle’s wings and an owl’s eyes.]
Oh No! My wings are effed up!
I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.
For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment–the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country–no bluebird in spring!
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.
I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.
I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need to show that we are more than red carpets, we are more than Hollywood, that we are a city ourselves of open arms. We are a city of generosity and compassion.
People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don’t ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that’s all.
His invitation lingers. So does my question. Why me? I don’t know the answer. When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see is a starving, stunted bird who never grew wings and lost all reason to sing.
Affliction is but the shadow of God’s wing.
My parents are awesome, but they’re pretty left-wing.
The midge’s wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it’s all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
It’s the same reason I don’t get Hooters. Why do we need to enjoy chicken wings and boobies at the same time? Yes, they are a natural and beautiful part of the human experience. And so are boobies. But why at the same time?
I’m constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. … It’s a gamble, a … spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.
My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person’s life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
The country you’re born in is where your passport comes from. No, not according to Donald Trump! No, not at all. I resent that kind of extremism of any kind. Left wing, right wing. Anyway at all. Anything that judges other people so harshly and across the board stupidity-wise. I got no time for that.
It was your song that made me sing
It was your song that gave me wings
It was your light that shined
guiding my heart to find
This place where I belong
It was your song
Dreams can come true
With God’s great angels like you
It was your song that gave me wings
It was your light that shined
guiding my heart to find
This place where I belong
It was your song
Dreams can come true
With God’s great angels like you
How much closer can I get to the common ear, the mainstream, and how much it can still be from this other world, this other place? That’s the line I keep trying to tread but have my wings extend more on both sides.
Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
Don’t panic, but we’ve got an audience.” Clary turned her head. Perched on a nearby tree branch was Hugo, watching them beadily from bright black eyes. So the sound she’d heard had been wings rather than demented passion. That was disappointing.
My only trick to having wing liner sharp enough to cut is be careful and take your time! I have hooded eyes, so I draw my wings more outwards as opposed to upwards so they accentuate my eye shape better.
Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It’s important to remember: We need both wings to fly.
Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.
They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel,” she said. “They say they’re where your wings will grow again one day.
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die
I’m parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn’t true. The parody doesn’t reflect reality.
Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It’s very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
I am made of awesome.” Kaia the Wing Shredder
I don’t know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.
And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds’ wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her.
The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short.
Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.
Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.
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.
There’s a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it’s written, and there really is order.
Well, it’s like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground.
A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.
Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention – purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, – purity apprehends and tastes Him.
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the arms of the right-wing populists. Without the ignorance or the trivialization on the part of all the political parties, there would be no Pegida or Alternative for Germany.
A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation‘s future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those.
I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I’d walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I’d disappeared into the wings of his mind’s stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.
Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!
I’m tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We’re fighting for freedom in Iraq. We’re going to fight for freedom in America.
Bill Cosby spoke out against The Simpsons and there was this kind of evangelical, right-wing sect that was against The Simpsons. Fox was a new network at the time, though, so they were going to take risks.
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.
We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don’t want to change anything.
and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.
There’s a couple of foods that if you see me eat them in a contest, you can tell I like them. Grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken wings, ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza. I mean, those, they go down like I was made to eat them.
Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.
