Wings Quotes — Page 34

Novelist

“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”

Wings Bird Unbearable

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Franz Kafka

Writer

“We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.”

Literature Wings Tears

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.”

America Wings Latin

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political stand, so they have to destroy what they call Obamacare. This is now not all the Republicans, it's a wing of the Republican Party, which is called conservative but in fact is just deeply reactionary.”

Party Wings Obamacare

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“It was reported in the left-wing press in the late 1930s that the Texas Company (Texaco), headed by the Nazi sympathizer Torkild Rieber, diverted its oil shipments from the Republic, with which it had contracts, to [Francisco] Franco.”

Wings Oil Texas

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and still isn't.”

Reading Support Wings

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Henry Adams

Historian

“The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.”

Use Politics Wings

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Henry Adams

Historian

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.”

Imagination Wings Weight

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Mark Cuban

Entrepreneur, Investor

“Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their life. Rather than pursue every thing they possibly can to prepare themselves to enable their idea or special talent, they tend to wing it and make excuses.”

Thinking Kids Wings

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Lewis Carroll

Author, Mathematician

“Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.”

Feet Wings Butterfly

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Henry Rollins

Musician, Writer, Actor

“I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.”

Wings Wheels Another Day

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Les Brown

Motivational Speaker, Author

“Leap and grow your wings on the way down”

Way Wings Leap

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