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“I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.”

Men Wise Particular Wings Proof Enthusiasm Fancy Paradise Pigs

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.”

Soul Grows Causes Beauty Wings Contemplation

Author:Plato

“Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.”

Reason Wings Following Senses

Book:Dante

Source: Dante

“Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.”

Hurt Animal Wings Animal Rights Butterfly Insects Living Things Moths Ladybugs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.”

Littles Meditation Growing Love You Wings Drinking

Author:Rajneesh

“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.”

Philosophy Lines Air Mystery Mines Angel Empty Wings Philosopher Conquer Rainbow Texture Clip

Book:Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honey'd cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness—to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.”

Men Years Mind Looks Soul Dream Heaven Easy Clear Four Quiet Summer Spring Fairs Seasons Wings Winter Mortals Fancy Autumn Honey Pale Idleness Mist Threshold Brooks Four Seasons

Book:The poetical works of John Keats

Source: The poetical works of John Keats

“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”

Giving Has Beens Broken Wings

Book:The Mime Order

Source: The Mime Order

“We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.”

Want Wish Causes Waste Bird Wings Aspire

Author:Eli Attie

“Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.”

Humans Two Soul Truth Given Conscience Tradition Wings Human Soul

Author:Giuseppe Mazzini

“Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.”

Ifs Love Sea Broken Wings Broken Wings

Author:Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.”

Men Two Wings Simplicity Purity

Book:Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume

Source: Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume

“Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.”

Shadow Wings Affliction

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.”

Dream Pleasure Fame Ambition Spring Flow Wings Rounds Insects Restless Gleam Airy Transience Meteors

Book:The Poetry of Robert Burns: Posthumous pieces

Source: The Poetry of Robert Burns: Posthumous pieces

“There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.”

Men Seems White Cities Quiet Spring Ears Wings Insult Savages White Man Insects Quiet Place

Book:Chief Seattle's Testimony

Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony

“Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.”

Love Earth Heaven Highest Hundred Wings Seven Lowest

Author:Rumi

“Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.”

Giving Children Wings Charity Naked Honey Bees

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

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

Enough God Existence Wings Proof Existence Of God

Book:Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

“The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.”

Poetry Laughing Poet Walking Wings Clouds Giants Midst Tempest Archer

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.”

Moments Age Young Mystery Ocean Wings Jazz Hungry Curious Young Age Express Yourself

Author:Paula Cole

“I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.”

Years Has Beens Wings Right Wing Pundits

Author:William Safire

“There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.”

Mind Humor Wings Excellent Frivolity

Author:Joseph Joubert

“When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?”

Arms Wings Ducks Trading Donald Duck

Author:Douglas Coupland

“There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.”

Hands Ambition Wings Mortals Contempt Hunting Strain Impossibility Futility

Book:Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions

Source: Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions

“I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.”

Soul Body Race Company Eternal Weakness Wings Notes Silent Individuality My Soul Companion Brutal Strict Seals Jailer

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.”

Ifs Wanted Given Wings

Author:Arsenio Hall

“Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.”

Doe Hands Easy Offers Wings

Author:Propertius

“I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.”

Left Middle Bird Wings Right Wing Left Wing Wing Chun

Author:Pat Paulsen

“I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.”

Want Giving Writing Firsts Ideas Sometimes Concepts Wings Flight Titles

Author:Neil Diamond

“Take time to be quiet. This is something that we don't do enough in this busy world of ours. We rush, rush, rush, and we are constantly listening to noise all around us. The human heart was meant for times of quiet, to peer deep within. It is when we do this that our hearts are set free to soar and take flight on the wings of our own dreams! Schedule some quiet "dream time" this week. No other people. No cell phone. No computer. Just you, a pad, a pen, and your thoughts.”

People World Humans Heart Enough Dream Week Listening Quiet Computer Wings Busy Phones Noise Flight Cells Pens Take Time Peers Schedules Introspection Human Heart Soar Cell Phone Deep Within Pads

Author:Jim Rohn

“In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself.”

“I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.”

May Whole Science Parent Change Walking Wings Legs Bones Flying Proportion Ducks Skeletons

Book:The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text

Source: The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text

“Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.”

Knows Wish Friendship Wind Hero Higher Wings Eagles My Hero

Author:Gary Morris

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Important Remember Wings West Entertainment Be Good Meant To Be

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.”

Want I Can Faces Voice Laughing Hell Path Solitude Wings Legs Giants Dwarfs Dwarves Gait

Author:Abdellatif Laabi

“We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves. We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.”

Firsts Made Helping Might Running Powerful Millions Technology Car Ten Built Tools Machines Wings Slave Inevitable Knives Airplane Supper

Author:John Brunner

“There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.”

“Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.”

Years Shows Actors Opportunity Training Wings

Author:Anthony Anderson

“I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.”

Wanted Angel Wings Guardian Angel Wings

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.”

Ifs Believe Ends I Believe Nature Sky Wings

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.”

States Law Left Levels Judging Wings Definitions Currents Locals Preserves Officials Activist Amendments Left Wing Statutes Constitutional Amendments

Author:John Boehner

“Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.”

Ifs Reason Alive Wall Pure Office Wings

Author:Julianna Baggott

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

Given Wings Agents Oscars

Author:Kathy Bates

“Just because you eat doesn't mean you eat smart. It's hard to beat a $1.99 wing pack of three at a fast-food restaurant - it's so cheap - but that wing pack isn't feeding anyone, it's just pushing hunger back an hour.”

Mean Hard Three Hours Smart Beats Wings Hunger Restaurants Pushing Packs Feeding Fast Food Fast Food Restaurants

Author:Mario Batali

“We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.”

Knows Way Wells Character Stories Shows Growing Up Growing Written Tvs Wings West China Beach Genre Ensemble

Author:Michael Cudlitz

“Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.”

Helping Today Left Wings West Prisoner Dictatorship Right Wing Left And Right

Author:Barbara Amiel

“Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.”

Facts Force Nations President Evidence Wings Currents Tendencies Legacy Right Wing Inconvenient Mania Unwelcome President Reagan

Author:Eric Alterman

“In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.”

Years Religious Movement Huge Gay Judgment Wings Aids Right Wing Stride

Author:Mario Cantone

“Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.”

Ifs Enough Wings West Frustration

Author:Stockard Channing

“I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.”

Made Political Father Views Boys Conflict Wings Communist Right Wing Political View

Author:Vince Cable