Wings Quotes
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If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
Francis Bacon
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Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.
Catherynne M. Valente
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In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.
Evel Knievel
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I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.
Carmen Boullosa
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To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
Annie Fellows
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The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.
Barry S. Strauss
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It was because it was so full of white wings that Fairhaven was such a happy place; wings of the yachts, of the seagulls, and of the swans . . . . White wings are for ever happy, symbols of escape and ascent, of peace and of joy, and a spot of earth about which they beat is secure of its happiness.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine.
Brendon Urie
Panic! at the Disco
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Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.
Gary D. Schmidt
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He was still wide awake when the morning came - the light changed imperceptibly underground, with the glowtrees flaring up brightly, and the shimmer of golden dust that remained suspended in the musty air, as if millions of butterflies had shed the scales of their wings in midair.
Ekaterina Sedia
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Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.
Bret Lott
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Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'
Emmet Gowin
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off;
you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.
…People fancy they are enjoying themselves,
but they are really tearing out their wings
for the sake of an illusion.
Rumi
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You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put
wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.
Dolly Parton
