Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Sheridan

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.

Samuel Rutherford

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.

Wallace Stevens

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Warren Beatty

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.

William Butler Yeats

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

Vladimir Nabokov

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.

William P. Young

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

Jose Saramago

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

Kevin Rudd

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

Alex Rodriguez

I think it gave us a little fire in our butts. We were a little flat, and I thought after that, we kind of picked it up a little bit.

Gary Gait

He just gets fired up and thrives on that challenge.

Anton LaVey

The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.

Dave Schmidt

He was still a little nervous going into the final. He didn't come out with that fire that he had earlier. But he'll get that back.

Bill Whitley

I don't know anything about that. I am here to represent the town in the matter of the consolidation of the fire department.

George Allen

I don't know anything about any vacancies. We hire and fire the president only.

Dave Soutar

He had a pretty good fire inside, and when he put his mind to something, he was going to make it work.

Joe Hale

He is going to be missed very much. We still don't know what happened we don't know how the fire started.

Bible Bible

He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

Kevin Constantine

We took the least 20 banged up guys and put them on the ice. I don't really have any feelings about it at all. We needed to rest some guys and that's what we did.

Marvin Moss

I think a lot about last year's game and how we felt afterward. Those two games are the two worst feelings I've had here.

George Parnham

I have bittersweet feelings about (the remarriage). I told Rusty a number of years ago that, obviously, there has to come a point in where he gets on with his life. Andrea has to get on with hers.

Rob Brown

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

Richelle Mead

It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.

Rebecca West

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

Richard Bach

Live enough of what you've always dreamed of doing, and there's no room left for feeling bad.

Umberto Eco

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Rick Riordan

During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again.