Quotes about wind
wind soul said
It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there. Trudi Canavan
wind tasks laborers
The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task. William Wordsworth
wind giving mountain
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. William Sharp
window inns written
Written on a Window of an Inn, William Shenstone
wind water economic
Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water. William J. Clinton
wind oil transition
We simply have to transition from an economy based almost exclusively on oil and coal and natural gas to one that's far more diversified, that uses solar energy, and wind energy, and the power of the tides, and bio-mass energy, and eventually, develops hydrogen.
wind gossip want
If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow. Rebecca Pidgeon
wind soul atheism
As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls. Robert Plant
wind storm violence
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel. Samuel Johnson
wind faces sun
Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.
wind swans soul
The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind. Wallace Stevens
wind illusion irrational
The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
wind land sky
It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies. Virgil
wind-farms law example
I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit. Warren Buffett
wind happy-love mountain
I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind! William Blake
wind two reason-why
In life you wind up with one of two things - the results or the reason why you don’t have the results. Results don’t have to be explained. They just are. Werner Erhard
window knows universe
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe. Samuel Beckett
wind soul skins
As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper. Salman Rushdie
wind half dozen
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause. W. S. Gilbert
wind light shadow
Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches. Ursula K. Le Guin
wind-blowing doe purpose
Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
wind relax paint
Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit. Tyson Chandler
wind age envious
At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind. Rodney Dangerfield
wind
The wind is old, but it keeps blowing. Roberto Duran
wind justice soul
He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things. . . . Wayward and restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect—he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane. Robert E. Howard
wind weather light
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. Robert Fitzgerald
wind people bars
People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar. Sarah Jessica Parker
wind bird tilt
A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn. William Faulkner
wind sea temptation
A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words Saint Augustine
wind fire flare-up
Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover. Saint Francis de Sales
wind sea two
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel. Zora Neale Hurston
wind faces kind
I kind of like the wind in my face. If it wasn’t there, I don’t know if I would push as hard. Tyra Banks
wind soul secret
The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul. William Gurnall