Wings Quotes

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

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.

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

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.

So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are knocking people over.

Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.

'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.

The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon!

If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

The gospel is not weight, it is wings. It carries us.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

If you give me wings I will soar for you Even if this whole land Sinks down to the water If you give me a sword I will fight for you Even if this whole sky Shoots through with your light

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

I love Love -- though he has wings, And like light can flee.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.

Anybody who thinks there's not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg.

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

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.

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.

Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

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

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.