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"For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable."
"Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings."
"I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; 'What is to be done?'"
"Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art."
"Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art."
"If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never balances, we could have the power to say to the leadership, you know what, need a better budget."
"Do the work. Create the character, don't wing it and don't hope for an award or the Red Carpet. At the end of day the people who stay in the line the longest are the people who are good."
"...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron."
"Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any."
"I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels."
"Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ."
"A secret spoken finds wings."
"If wishes were wings, pigs would fly."
"If wishes had wings, sheep would fly."
"Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels."
"Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings."
"Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism."
"There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of woman is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing. There is no hope for that family or country where there is no estimation of women, where they live in sadness. For this reason, they have to be raised first."
"I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country."
"The final flight make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive."
