Quotes About Wing

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

Everything was going beautifully, on the brink of taking wing, and I had a feeling that I'd never had, that reality itself was transforming around us in some beautiful and dangerous fashion, that we were being driven by a force we didn't understand, towards an end I did not know.

sprinted past him up the stairs, toward the royal family's wing of the palace.

The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing.

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that, just as the eye is an evolved organ for seeing, and the wing an evolved organ for flying, so the brain is a collection of organs (or 'modules') for dealing with a set of specialist data-processing needs.

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat,With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing,Or where the beetle windsHis small but sullen horn.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

News is history shot on the wing.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

At last the magic caught, and she managed to vault clumsily onto it before it trundled into the night sky as gracefully as a duck with one wing missing.

I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.

Annihilation!" she shrieked at me, flailing in confusion. "Annihilation! Annihilation!" The word seemed more meaningless the more she repeated it, like the cry of a bird with a broken wing.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

When a solidly conservative party is taken over by its most extreme wing in a campaign that includes attacks that are no less vicious when aimed at that conservative party's mainstream pillars than they are at the opposition party, we think "radicalization" is an objectively appropriate term.

While self-change requires becoming a nonracist person, societal change requires becoming an antiracist one.

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Her eyes drank in the colors of home—the soft gray of an arctic gull's wing. The clear blue heart of an ice floe.

Fame is a bee. It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

The burn unit is often the most distant wing of a hospital, because burn victims are so susceptible to infection that they must be kept away from other patients. More important, perhaps, is that the placement minimizes the chance of visitors stumbling across a Kentucky Fried Human.

Hope Springs Exulting on Triumphant Wing.