The Wind Quotes

You can hear the seven sins Blowin' through the ghetto wind.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.

Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing.

How can you tell drops not to fall when rain exists.... How can you tell leaves not to fall when wind exist.... And how can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist...

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

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

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with adverse appearances.

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.

The winds of change are blowing across Ontario.

O lost, And by the wind grieved, Ghost, Come back again.

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.

His screaming stallions maned with whistling wind.

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

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?

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.

i am the wind. one day, i will fly free

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying.

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.