"The current flows fast and furious. It issues……" — Virginia Woolf
"The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth."
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Virginia Woolf
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is…
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The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.
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I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
— Sean Hannity
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One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier,…
— Jon Kyl
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The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because…
— Allen West
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We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to…
— C.S. Lewis
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An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those…
— William Butler Yeats
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Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing.…
— Scott Westerfeld
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As a son of an airman who was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and a member of…
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