Quotes 81 till 100 of 133.
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Oh, there's a lot of breaks in our sport. Strained muscles, breaks, tears. I've seen teeth fly out before mouth guards were compulsory. Feet fractures are quite common, cheeks, faces, jaws, legs.
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
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Skill comes so slow, and life so fast doth fly, we learn so little and forget so much.
Nosce Teipsum (1599) -
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
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Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them.
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Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.The Song of Long Sorrow -
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
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The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
Dialogues in Limbo (1925) -
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187 -
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
Fight Club
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