Quotes about wind
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 roots zion
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. Samuel Rutherford
wind heaven soul
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
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
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
wind wonder princess-bride
Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using. William Goldman
window silent
And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in. William C. Bryant
wind sky rushing
The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.
wind wings long
I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.
wind sabbath
The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.
wind collaboration clock
Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike. William Butler Yeats
wind blame
when we have blamed the wind we can blame love....
wind hatred mind
If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf
wind mind burden
Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.
wind long way
The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day. Walter Scott
wind hands may
However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again. Walter Gropius
wind sea sailing
When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds. William Lyon Mackenzie King
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.
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