Quotes about wind
wind
It's like having the wind at your back.
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.
wind world bigs
A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind. Kim Stanley Robinson
wind transition abundance
Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal. Julia Gillard
wind people community
A pinwheel also needs wind. And with our actions, and our intentions, we can be that wind. We have to be those agents of change for the young people and their families in our communities. Josh Charles
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.
wind people awful
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people. Milton Friedman
wind winds-of-change
The winds of change are blowing at the RNC. Mike Duncan
wind tree ears
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? Kate Chopin
wind gone cold
Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder. Karin Slaughter
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 way faces
...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way. Nick Hornby
wind escaping people
If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself. Marvin Gaye
wind iron atheism
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar. Mark Twain
wind water world
There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone. Mark Z. Jacobson
wind squares three
You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.
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 age compromise
We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness. R. C. Sproul
wind income needs
Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs R. Buckminster Fuller
wind rubbish mercy
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. Joseph Stalin
wind soul body
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt. Leonardo da Vinci
wind voice differences
Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.
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 two voice
You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones. Margaret Atwood
wind people neurosis
I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get. Mel Brooks
wind fire light
The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire. Pierre Beaumarchais