Unfurl Quotes

#1. O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake,
Would all their colours from the sunset take:
From something of material sublime,
Rather than shadow our own soul's day-time
In the dark void of night. For in the world
We jostle, - but my flag is not unfurl'd ...

John Keats

#2. [W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War.

Alexander Hamilton

#3. Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. "He's my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life." Al cleared his throat nervously. "That's good to know," he said lightly. "Important safety tip. Rachel, write that down somewhere as lesson number one.

Kim Harrison

#4. He was frightened by this glimpse of what was in her and wouldn't watch it unfurl.

Lauren Groff

#5. You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life's desire.

John O'Donohue

#6. He set a brisk pace through the trees, but not so fast that he failed to notice the brilliant green fronds of new bracken beginning to unfurl, or the first pale buds of primroses pushing out of their green coverings. Birdsong filled the air, and the fresh scent of growing things.

Erin Hunter

#7. I bind the Sun's throne with a burning zone, And the Moon's with a girdle of pearl; The volcanoes are dim, and the stars reel and swim, When the whirlwinds my banner unfurl.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#8. For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#9. I have ... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.

Colin McEnroe

#10. Unfurl your brow. So many people walk around stressed, or upset, or confused, and they make that face, where they scrunch their brow. Just recognizing that your face is clenched and unfurling your brow will instantly make you feel more relaxed.

Asher Roth

#11. Give me a platform of ideas and harmonies on which to gesture and unfurl my wings. Give me a place to stand.

Alan Moore

#12. ... to me, a restaurant with no menu, headed by a chef I trusted, would be ideal. In such a utopia, guests could specify deathly allergies, hunger level, and time constraints, but then they would unfurl their napkin and surrender".

Phoebe Damrosch

#13. What I really wanted to do was linger in the tidy lines that Marcus had scored into the earth. I wanted to sit in the exact center of the spiral and wait for the plants to unfurl themselves. I wanted them to climb and rove over my limbs until I burst into bloom with them.

Tiffany Baker

#14. I know I'm smiling just to look at him. I know that what he just said is making something unfurl inside. I know that all around the porch, a thick curtain of fog hides us from the world.

Jandy Nelson

#15. Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.

William Cowper

#16. Unfurl the bandages, ready the medicine. Let us return now, wild women howling, laughing, singing up The One who loves us.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#17. If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.

Vanna Bonta

#18. Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

William Lloyd Garrison

#19. Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

Gayle Forman

#20. This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

Thomas Pynchon

#21. Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.

Michael Jackson

#22. I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#23. A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready.

A.D. Posey

#24. I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her.
-Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)

L'Poni Baldwin

#25. With her words, the world could spin again. It took great restraint to not unfurl my wings and fly Abby around the mountain, pronouncing to anyone with ears that she loved me. Abigail Miller loved me.

Ashlan Thomas

#26. Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor."
I felt my airway constrict. Damn, this was profound. I continued. "Nuzzle inside the hollow of my bones. Let our breaths mingle as one. Turn liquid for me. Only for me. Bury your essence inside of my soul.

Christina Lee

#27. Dried out and curled up in a ball, me, I am like tea. Waiting to be immersed. Willing to unfold. Wanting to unfurl. Wailing silently to be exposed. Whimpering till that day. It seems I'm wilting and withering away.

Dharlene Marie Fahl

#28. Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

Venerable Bede

#29. My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

George Washington

#30. Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.

Meera