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ostriches order evil
I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta. Albert Einstein
ostriches wings bird
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. Ambrose Bierce
ostriches hands issues
We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive. Margaret Heffernan
ostriches elephants rivers
I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds! Nancy Farmer
ostriches people storm
Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments. Georges Rouault
ostriches eagles europe
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. H. G. Wells
ostriches san-francisco world
When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand. Jeane Kirkpatrick
ostriches world sand
We're ostriches and the whole world is sand. Jim Butcher
ostriches important wish
The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it. Katherine Mansfield
world would-be birth
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified. Alan Watts
world marvelous
The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.
world meaningless
Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
world going-through-changes stills
Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on. Alan Price
world save-the-world please
Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world... Alan Moore
world clock made
Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.
world advantage knows
One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
world september
Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day? Alan Jackson
world
I have the nicest life in the world. Alan Bean
sand grains-of-sand grain
God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand. Caspar David Friedrich
sandwiches parsley should
I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season. Edward Gorey
sandwiches dessert
I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich. Alber Elbaz
sandwiches ham injustice
Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to. Chuck Robb
sandy
The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over. Sparky Anderson
sand ends all-the-best
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I? Thomas Bailey Aldrich
sandwiches finest tesco
I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones. Taron Egerton
sandwiches drink prawns
They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch. Roy Keane
sand
You change or you hide your head in the sand. Tony Gilroy