Home / Topics / Air Quotes

Air Quotes

Browse 5312 quotes about Air.

Air Quotes

“The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some modern prints, copied with tasteless servility after the antigue; the soul is left out, and none of the parts are tied together by what may properly be termed character.”

People May Soul Character Together Young Left Attitude Air Modern Fashion Strikes Print Tied Left Out Servility

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.”

World Light Passion Seeing Air Childhood Roots Sight Glasses Strikes Core Senses Mask Barriers Foul Volcanoes

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes, when it is still cool enough to work out solutions to sticky problems.”

Stills Enough Problem Water Morning Sun Air Solutions Calm Work Out Strikes Insects Risen Crisps Sticky

Author:April Smith

“With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!”

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

“The palpable sense of mystery in the desert air breeds fables, chiefly of lost treasure. ... It is a question whether it is not better to be bitten by the little horned snake of the desert that goes sidewise and strikes without coiling, than by the tradition of a lost mine.”

Littles Lost Air Mystery Mines Tradition Strikes Treasure Desert Snakes Fables

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

“In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia during the 1990s. That's how they intend to bring everyone into line who don't share the Western view of democratization of society and the liberalization of the economy. But there is no future for that kind of globalization.”

Mind Kind Lines Views Economy Air Share Military Policy Politician Tools Western Strikes Globalization Intervention Nato Democratization Yugoslavia Military Intervention

Author:Vladimir Yakunin

“Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs - hadn't been done for a long time, and it's illegal in most countries - in the air controller strike.”

Firsts Long Country Done Air Long Time Extremes Strikes Administration Illegal Controllers Scabs

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I would let the military commanders give the commander in chief options rather than tell them what you want to hear. Not having gotten those options, I can't tell you if we are going to have boots on the ground but certainly, a more expanded role for the special operators would be essential. And being more effective in strikes as it is relates to the air.”

Ifs Want Giving I Can Would Be Roles Air Special Military Essentials Strikes What You Want Chiefs Relate Boots Commanders Commander In Chief Operators

Author:Jeb Bush

“It was a Russian airplane that was bombed over the Sinai Peninsula. When the Russians conduct air strikes on IS, they are doing so because they too are threatened by terror.”

Air Terror Strikes Airplane Threatened Sinai Peninsulas

Author:Martin Schulz

“Let me begin by saying that we have to understand who ISIS is. ISIS is a radical Sunni group. They cannot just be defeated through air strikes. Air strikes are a key component of defeating them, but they must be defeated on the ground by a ground force. And that ground force must be primarily made up of Sunni Arabs themselves, Sunni Arabs that reject them ideologically and confront them militarily.”

Made Force Groups Air Keys Let Me Strikes Radical Rejects Defeated Components Isis

Author:Marco Rubio

“The air strikes are important [to fight ISIS], but we need to have an air force capable of it. And because of the budget cuts we are facing in this country, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force we have ever had. We have to reverse those cuts, in addition to the cuts to our Navy and in addition to the cuts to our Army, as well.”

Needs Wells Important Country Fighting Left Force Cutting Air Capable Army Strikes Budgets Smallest Reverse Navy Isis Air Force Budget Cuts

Author:Marco Rubio

“We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to actually take out ISIS in Raqqa, end their claim of being a Caliphate.”

Ends Able Support Air Claims Strikes Partners Isis Kurdish

Author:Hillary Clinton

“[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there.”

Wanted Air Unions Strikes Destroyed Hated Controllers

Author:Noam Chomsky