![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.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-spectacle-of-american-politics-resembles-that-of-swarms-of-insects-changing.jpg)
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wings might spirit
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades. Sara Sheridan
wings bird tree
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship. Samuel Rutherford
wings poetry darkness
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Wallace Stevens
wings people giving
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites. Warren Beatty
wings giving heaven
God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days. William Butler Yeats
wings trying apollo
in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members. Vladimir Nabokov
wings bird shack
Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly. William P. Young
wings lord knows
Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere. Jose Saramago
wings ugly modern
We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold. Kevin Rudd
politics motto gridlock
Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.' William Safire
politics down-and come-up
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up. Richard M. Nixon
politics persuasion heavy
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents. Walter Cronkite
politics persuasion halfway
Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion. Van Morrison
politics might majority
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. Sandra Day O'Connor
politics matter congress
We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces? Will Rogers
politics vote good-humor
And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.
politics trouble stamps
Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
politics liquor
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got. Zora Neale Hurston
use moral debate
The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless. Richard Holloway
useless
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. Raymond Chandler
used
I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great. William Saroyan
use
Use your power gently. William Nicholson
use streets
The street has its own use for things. William Gibson
use policy materials
There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on. Richard Rogers
use life-is careless
Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all. Trevor McDonald
use riches values
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure. Samuel Johnson
use strategy imagery
The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you. Wayne Dyer