T. S. Eliot Quotes, Air Quotes, Wings Quotes

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

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The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wings Quotes , Ease Quotes

Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Death Quotes , Wings Quotes

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Wings Quotes , Giving Quotes

Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Wings Quotes

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

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Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Wings Quotes

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fear Quotes , Wings Quotes

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wings Quotes , Romeo And Juliet Love Quotes

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Wings Quotes , Feet Quotes

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

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All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.

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No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sky Quotes , Wings Quotes

The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dog Quotes , Wings Quotes

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Wings Quotes

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes