Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

Margaret Mahy

Fear can give you urgent wings.

Michael Jackson

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

Pat Robertson

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.

Ozzy Osbourne

You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.

Christopher Fry

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

Chris Murphy

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Francesca Lia Block

You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.

George Orwell

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

John Milton

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

John Milton

The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

Mitch Albom

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Kate Bernheimer

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

Tess Gerritsen

Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

Terry Pratchett

Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings.

Terry Pratchett

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

Tom Reilly

Look to the horizon, spread your wings, and fly.

Tom Petty

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

Simone de Beauvoir

Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.

Russ Feingold

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

Rush Limbaugh

The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever.

William Sloane Coffin

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

William Butler Yeats

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

William Butler Yeats

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

Winona Ryder

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing. Right wing. Chicken wing.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

Saint Augustine

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

W. C. Fields

If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.