Quotes with wild-goose

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  • Robert Browning Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • J. G. Ballard Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Boris Pasternak Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
    LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Benjamin Watson Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Francis Bacon Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bob Simon Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.
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  • Lord George Byron Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Bill Walton That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Ben Stein The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Buffalo Bill The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Lao-Tzu The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Joseph Conrad The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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