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Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich. -- Lenny Bruce
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. -- Woodrow Wilson
You might be a redneck if a full-grown ostrich has fewer feathers than your cowboy hat. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand. -- Samuel Beckett
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. -- Thomas Malthus
Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments. -- Georges Rouault
I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich. -- Pierre Salinger
I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta. -- Albert Einstein
I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment. -- Bette Davis
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
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. -- Totie Fields
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
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 -- Dan Brown
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. -- Ambrose Bierce
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 Kirkpatrick
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 in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun. -- Alex D. Linz
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". -- Peter Kreeft
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. -- Dianne Feinstein
We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive. -- Margaret Heffernan
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. -- Jo Brand
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. -- Dalia Mogahed
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, afraid of life and not facing it. It is seeing the reality of this glorious life which is yours, and in doing so, helping to bring it about. The more clearly you can see it, the more quickly will it come about. -- Eileen Caddy
You don't direct ostriches, you herd them. -- Shelley Duvall
We're ostriches and the whole world is sand. -- Jim Butcher

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