Quotes with wings

  • Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
  • If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
  • Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
  • As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
  • 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.
  • Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Walter H. Cottingham A man without ambition is like a bird without wings.
    System: The Magazine of Business (1908)
    Walter H. Cottingham
    Canadian entrepreneur and writer (1866 - 1930)
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  • Horace Greeley Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • John Dryden Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Dr. Marcus Bach Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.
    Dr. Marcus Bach
    American philosopher, teacher, ordained minister, (1901 - )
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  • Jules Renard A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Don Marquis A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • George Macdonald Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Robert Southey Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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  • Britt Ekland As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Francis Bacon Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Alexander Pope Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas à Kempis By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Francis Beaumont Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Ray Bradbury First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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