Quotes & Sayings About Gaining Wings

Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents. — Conan O'Brien

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness. — Jane Porter

When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent. — Johann Lamont

He sighed, Selange was perplexing, and an adulterous prude seemed a contradictory term. She had a fierce spirit one minute and the next she cried like a baby. Damn, he missed her silly ass. [Right now, he could see so damn clear
he wanted the crybaby-fierce adulterous prude in his arms
He loved this goddamn woman. Period. End of story!] — S.W. Frank

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece — Percy Bysshe Shelley

We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent — William J. Clinton

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine. — N. T. Wright

I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing. — Christopher Hitchens

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other. — Millard Fillmore