Quotes about wind
wind butlers crisis
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief. Margaret Mitchell
wind tables rags
the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind. Margaret Halsey
wind ideas incentives
The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf. Michael Lewis
wind-blowing perfect-days water
Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way. Melissa Walker
wind knowing soul
How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way Patrick Rothfuss
wind sheep soldier
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. Laurence J. Peter
wind may cold
The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not. Socrates
wind fool opinion
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. Socrates
wind wizards gone
My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning. Meredith Brooks
wind waiting used
I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out. Joe Cronin
wind giving confusion
He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer. John Greenleaf Whittier
wind sea sky
Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March. John Greenleaf Whittier
window generous
And what is more generous than a window? Pat Schneider
wind listening next
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them. Pat Summitt
wind oil asian
Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest. P. J. O'Rourke
wind rushing gowns
I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind. P. G. Wodehouse
wind jelly
Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind. P. G. Wodehouse
wind worst
It was probably the worst the wind has been. You couldn't really read it.
wind
It's only going to wind up in court.
wind forever life-is
... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever. David Wong
wind ideas
I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would. Danger Mouse
wind ideas little-things
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind. Daisy Ashford
wind sea dancing
The Earth never ceases to spin. All life is dancing : The trees, the wind, the sea. Keep dancing for the rest of your life. Daisaku Ikeda
wind fire listening
I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind and Fire since the Seventies and of The Gap Band since the Eighties. Condoleezza Rice
wind sea floating
But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do Jack Kerouac
wind egypt broken
The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia ; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace ; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus . Isaac Newton
wind justice indifference
His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference. Isabel Allende
wind mushrooms criticism
In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies Friedrich Nietzsche
wind purpose sail
Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him. Friedrich Nietzsche
wind sky imagination
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. Gelett Burgess
wind funny-things paris
He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn’t really want to anyway. That’s what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris Gena Showalter
wind voice waiting
Butler,” he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. “Yes, Artemis, what?” “If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back. Eoin Colfer
wind
In this event, the big (question) will be: What's wind and what's water?