Ostriches Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens.…
— Jo Brand
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Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts…
— Dianne Feinstein
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A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right…
— Madeleine Stowe
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We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot…
— Luis Marden
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Rock star, flier than an ostrich.
— Juelz Santana
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them…
— Garrett P. Serviss
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I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have…
— John Chaney
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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
— Pierre Salinger
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With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge…
— David Fricke
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A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
— Thomas Malthus
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We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given…
— Margaret Heffernan
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OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but…
— Alex D. Linz
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I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
— Lupita Nyong'o
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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
— H.G. Wells
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Concentrate on the wonders and joys of this life, and accept the very best which is your true heritage. It is not being an ostrich,…
— Eileen Caddy
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We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.
— Jim Butcher
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The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.
— Pierre Daninos
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