Quotes for All
Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself among the butterflies without a need to interfere should their wings get torn off. They were only butterflies, after all. Gail Carriger
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead … Read more
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings. Evel Knievel
I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view. Evan Davis
The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings. Eugenie de Guerin
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles. Eugene V. Debs
Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, … The tough city thing is fine. Its always had a reputation as that. … You know, Gordie Howe, when I was watching hockey, was the toughest guy in the league playing for the Red Wings. He represented … Read more
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven’t got it Eugene Field
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict. Eugene Delacroix