Blackened Wings Quotes & Sayings

Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help. — Maggie Stiefvater

With this life I give you pride, so that you may know your own worth and the worth of your Clan. — Erin Hunter

As though frustrated by so much rustic simplicity, though, one of the chefs had provided a charming hors d'oeuvre - a nest, cunningly built from strips of pastry, ornamented with real sprigs of flowering apple, on the edge of which perched two nightingales, skinned and roasted, stuffed with apple and cinnamon, then redressed in their feathers. And in the nest was the entire family of baby birds, tiny stubs of outstretched wings brown and crispy, tender bare skins glazed with honey, blackened mouths agape to show the merest hint of the almond-paste stuffing within. — Diana Gabaldon

A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall. — T. S. Eliot

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. — Pope John Paul II

His angelic wings blackened when the dark fury assailed his mind. Summoning new strength from the unholy power that ravaged his soul, grieved to drastic levels of desperation by the tainting of the holy light within him, he combated ally and enemy alike, bent on destroying both sides in order to ensure the quelling of the dark energies there and then. For days and nights, the lone warrior bathed himself in the blood of angels and demons. And when it was over, he stood alone on contaminated land, with a contaminated soul. He was banned forever from Heaven and not even Hell had space for a creature which seemed to cherish Oblivion over Pandemonium. The dark angel, not so far removed from his former self as his superiors seemed to believe, died on the edge of the cliffs, of utter loneliness and despair. — T.A. Miles

So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution. — Thomas Szasz

EVE:bite me chillie boy — Rachel Caine

Separatio in Loco
He lives all alone now, in the home they bought,
and finally seems to be managing, more or less.
Not the way he was, of course, with her,
who lives alone now, too, at the same address. — Miller Williams

No one has two white angelic wings. We are all confronted one day with the reality of having blackened our morals. Instead of trying to figure out what others are in search of within you, focus on yourself and no longer be inactive. They too are facing their own demons, so let them do so by themselves. You can help them but you cannot choose for them. — Kia Carrington-Russell

Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance. — T. B. Joshua

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency. — Robert Dallek

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination. — J.L. Bond

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis. — Chris Evert

Definitely not - you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick. — Brandon Sanderson

When man has nothing but his will to assert
even his good-will
it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains. — D.H. Lawrence

I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here. — Michael Tolkin

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play. — Ringo Starr

There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women. — Joey Comeau