Quotes about wind
wind world foolish
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. Emma Goldman
wind storm breeze
One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm. John McGraw
wind islands enough
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. John Millington Synge
wind machines wells
No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person, Leo Fender
wind sea giants
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up. Lawrence Hargrave
windy plenty
Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at. Larry McMurtry
wind law clouds
To know the laws that govern the winds, and to know that you know them, will give you an easy mind on your voyage round the world; otherwise you may tremble at the appearance of every cloud. Joshua Slocum
wind weather tyrants
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. Joseph Conrad
wind snow looks
I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here! Langston Hughes
wind obamacare faces
And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy. John Kasich
wind olympics bigs
You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over. Lindsey Vonn
wind united-states conviction
If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better). Lyn Nofziger
wind cities water
The time has come when we cannot be so careless. Unless we do better, we may suffer through a stark emergency of the environment. We may create a hostile world: a world to bruise ourselves against; a world of sprawling cities, unplanned or badly planned; a world whose water is full of sludge, whose winds are full of soot; a world whose landscape has been totally neglected, stripped, marred, and wasted. All of this need not happen if we choose well, and particularly if we plan well and if we act well. Lyndon B. Johnson
wind organization people
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. Lowell Bergman
wind influence should
Only we should not be influenced by the winds. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
wind gone sound
In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it. Freida Pinto
wind swings might
One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing. Grantland Rice
wind breaths
The winds are out of breath. John Dryden
wind-blowing boeing steps
This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step. John Maynard Smith
wind bird west
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries. John Masefield
wind fire giving
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind. John Lyly
wind treasure sailor
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. John Lubbock
wind choices littles
There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation. John le Carre
window dickens felt
I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast. John Baldessari
wind teeth
We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth. George Leigh Mallory
wind skeletons stronger
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be. Ellen Hopkins
wind storm demon
We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry. John Burroughs
wind way heat
Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is. Joe Barton
wind forever soul
What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul. Logan Pearsall Smith
window-panes tea vision
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea. T. S. Eliot
window-panes faces
There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
wind soul want
I want to save my soul, that timid wind. Susan Sontag
wind clouds heaven
O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek. Robinson Jeffers