Unfledged Quotes

#1. The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!

Horace Bushnell

#3. The little Durands were there, I conclude," said she, "with their mouths open to catch the music; like unfledged sparrows ready to be fed. They never miss a concert.

Jane Austen

#4. In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

Rick Perlstein

#5. I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not, complicit in the action.

Rob Roberge

#6. Olympism ... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

Pierre De Coubertin

#7. I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She's a very specific creature in my mind, and she has her thoughts, which range from skin to American history, philosophy, and the arts.

Lynne Tillman

#8. We can't stop time, but it will sometimes stand still for love.

Pearl S. Buck

#9. I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me.

Kenji Goto

#10. People are often in jail because they are honesty-impaired.

William Wright

#11. I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

Michelle Trachtenberg

#12. The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

Joe Wilson