Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fay Weldon

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

Federico Garcia Lorca

I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires.

Francesco Guicciardini

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

Edward Fitzgerald

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.

Jim Goad

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

Jerome Lawrence

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

Jim Elliot

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Everyone was back, but we're still getting our wind back.

Robert Kiyosaki

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

The wind was pretty strong. I don't know what it was like in Leavenworth, but in Topeka it was pretty harsh.

The wind set it off once. And we sprinted over there. But there was no fish.

The wind is at the back to this industry, no question.

Billy Graham

Can you see God? You haven't seen him? I've never seen the wind. I see the effects of the wind, but I've never seen the wind. There's a mystery to it.

Bjork

I just feel like making things solar-powered and wind-powered should be as easy as using an iPad.

Stephen Jay Gould

Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

Ellen Baker

You can look out the window and see the whole world.

Damian Marley

Did you know that IExist before the earthAnd did you know my eyesAre windows to the world.

Michael Steele

We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

Sherwood Anderson

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

Ray Bradbury

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

Serge Gainsbourg

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference.

Savitri Devi

If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and in place of its meaningsless chatter about 'love' and 'peace' the voice of the howling wind over its ruins.

Lykke Li

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

Lucretius

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

Louis L'Amour

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

Mehmet Oz

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

Mason Cooley

Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.

Mason Cooley

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

Mem Fox

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

John Ruskin

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

John Milton

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

John Milton

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

Mike Watkins

I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.