Quotes about wind
wind together rope
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity. Victor Hugo
wind fire broken
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
wind giving tides
Give wind and tide a chance to change. Richard E. Byrd
wind storm ships
You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds. Thomas More
wind sea water
A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest. Thomas Browne
wind-turbines landscape intrusion
Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape. Tim Yeo
wind long ashes
The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish. Thomas Starr King
wind oil america
By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. Tim Johnson
wind gone followers
....followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone.... Saint-John Perse
wind underestimate fingers
You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind. Ronald Reagan
wind firsts fans
When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off. Sally Rand
wind ships succeed
As the master politician navigates the ship of state, he both creates and responds to public opinion. Adept at tacking with the wind, he also succeeds, at times, in generating breezes of his own. Stewart Udall
wind-blowing people nuclear
Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.
wind breathe stomach
You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt. Steve Jobs
wind office magic
Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But we don't need everyone on board; we don't need one magic person in office; we need ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes. Rebecca Solnit
wind sea joy
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility. Robert Graves
wind dragons wheel-of-time
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. Robert Jordan
wind storm sound
We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.
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 stuck guilds
I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons. Tommy Shaw
wind sea sailing
Wind is to us what money is to life on shore. Sterling Hayden
wind offering rue
How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place? Suzanne Collins
wind passionate driving
Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly. Taylor Swift
wind flying misfortunes
Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune. Sophocles
wind cyclones barns
If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone Stephen King
wind would-be why-not
In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
wind people noses
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.
wind england silent
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.
wind quality acoustics
Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert. Stephen Ambrose
wind trying ships
Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now. Stefan Molyneux