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  • Ostrich is a very lean meat. Bison is a very lean meat. Chicken is a very lean meat. Notice something about my favorite meats?

    Ostriches   Meat   Bison  
  • Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

  • I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

    Ostriches   Sand   Feels  
  • 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 have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.

    Dog   Peace   Men  
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy
  • The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.

    Animal   Ostriches   Bird  
  • 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 is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring.

    Hands   Iron   Feet  
  • Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

    Eye   Ostriches   Fool  
    Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber
  • 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 a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that......Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble.

  • The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

    Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1039, Delphi Classics
  • Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

    John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.219
  • I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.

  • Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.

  • 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. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.

    Ostriches   Shoes   Feet  
  • Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

    Men   Ostriches   Ideas  
    Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.158, Penguin
  • Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

    Dog   Angel   Ostriches  
  • I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

  • Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

    Eye   Men   Ostriches  
  • We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.

  • A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

    Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.4, University of Michigan Press
  • I will endanger your species like an ostrich, Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage!

    Crazy   Rap   Ostriches  
    Song: Do My Thing, Album: The Coming, 1996
  • I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

    Ostriches   Order   Evil  
    Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
  • Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

    Ostriches   Sand   Humans  
  • We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

    Ostriches   World   Sand  
  • 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 to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem.

  • 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 now, but you do become desensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets. - on the link between movies and school violence.

  • Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

  • You know, a meme is now circulating that's called the Ostrich Brigade. And it's used to describe all those people who are burying their heads in the sand. I call it the three D strategy. It's denial, deflection, and a demonization of those of us who want to speak honestly about these issues of extremism.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • You might be a redneck if a full-grown ostrich has fewer feathers than your cowboy hat.

  • When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

    Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (2018). “Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions”, p.594, Routledge
  • A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. “Really?” I yelled. Horus didn’t answer

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