Wind Beneath My Wings Similar Quotes & Sayings

The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world's malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there's nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you've nothing better to do. — Simon R. Green

The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the work of the maker ... The imagination of man is made in the image of the imagination of God. — George MacDonald

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting. — Eric Fischl

To many men ... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. — George Steiner

It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty. — Dennis Lindley

The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked. — Terry Pratchett