Quotes about wind
wind coffins good-intentions
(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins. Gayle Forman
wind law civilization
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants. Henry Ward Beecher
window mark spots
Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
window attics cracked
Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open. Henry James
wind feelings intellectual
I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second I read something or hear a story. I just know when it grabs me in a certain way I want to direct it. And then I spend the next four to six months trying to talk myself out of it, because directing is really hard! But it's true, I know essentially when and what I want to do next... it's an undeniable feeling I get and it's not the same feeling I get when I wind up producing something. Steven Spielberg
wind lasts flutes
...and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute... Tom Stoppard
wind tree cast-away
There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie. Tom Hanks
wind may pairs
As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works. Joseph Hall
wind house icy
The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down. Miguel de Unamuno
wind tears important
Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history Neil Cross
wind lost findings
It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us. Nicole Williams
wind civilization yield
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break. Pearl S. Buck
wind two water
There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy. Peace Pilgrim
wind scent may
Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone. John Muir
wind two space
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
wind mistress made
Commerce has made all winds her mistress. John Sterling
wind balance orchestra
There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying. John Philip Sousa
wind yield touching
As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything. Martin Luther
wind challenges trying
The biggest challenge has been simulating a tornado with wind machines and dirt and debris. Right when you walk on the set, you feel the energy of a tornado. But the hardest thing is trying to get dialogue out in all of that. Mark-Paul Gosselaar
wind self my-own
I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self. Nicole Kidman
wind sky smell
Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world. Nancy Farmer
wind soul hell
If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.
wind people world
I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom? Philip Roth
wind breathe wave
The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave. Philip James Bailey
wind trying way
We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it. Holly Black
wind house vision
Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
wind play ships
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
wind clouds littles
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!
wind lambs temper
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Laurence Sterne
wind looks painful
The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind. Libba Bray
wind together ants
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment. Friedrich Schiller
wind perfect joy
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.
wind civilization doe
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind. Frederick Soddy