Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Martin

I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

Woody Guthrie

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

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.

Samuel Rutherford

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

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 Gilmore Simms

Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

Valerie Jarrett

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

William Gurnall

The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.

Walter Scott

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

Dan Sharp

I haven't experienced a storm like this in a long time.

Craig Smith

It's pruned a little but really isn't all that different. Things don't get big down here because they get pruned by storm after storm after storm.

Danielle Brown

There was one year in 1933 we actually had 21 storms. That's been the most in the Atlantic. However, it was before we started naming storms

Cedric Richmond

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

Deepak Chopra

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

Armistead Maupin

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

David Spade

Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

Simon Mawer

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

Frederick Douglass

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

Girolamo Savonarola

I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.